Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7865
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Names
Language Name Name source
EnglishYucatán EscarpmentIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
EnglishYucatan EscarpmentUS BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF)   
PlaceType Escarpment 
Latitude 19° 40' 41.5" N (19.67819204°)  
Longitude 86° 33' 40.7" W (-86.5612947°)  
Min. Lat 18° 6' 0" N (18.1°)  
Min. Long 87° 7' 2.7" W (-87.1174°)  
Max. Lat 21° 5' 0" N (21.0833°)  
Max. Long 85° 31' 0" W (-85.5167°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCUFN-16. Proposer: José Luis Frias Salazar, National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Mexico; and Lisa Taylor, National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), USA. Year of proposal: 2003.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): History: Named from the nearby Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.    
Additional information (en): Shown as Yucatan Escarpment in the ACUF Gazetteer.    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 19.666667; Longitude: -86.5    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -156177    
Relations 
Part of  Caribbean Sea (IHO Sea Area)  [view hierarchy]   
Partly part of  Cuban Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)  [view hierarchy]   
Partly part of  Mexican Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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