Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/8078
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishTurneffe EscarpmentIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Escarpment 
Latitude 17° 51' 0" N (17.85°)  
Longitude 87° 13' 0" W (-87.216667°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes Previous coordinates (en): Lat: 17.85; Long: -87.21666667    
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 after nearby Turneffe Atoll, off Belize.    
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Part of  Caribbean Sea (IHO Sea Area)  [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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