| MRGID |
http://marineregions.org/mrgid/4587 |
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Proposed standard  |
| Names |
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Name |
Name source |
| English | Puerto Rico Trench | IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names |
| English | Porto Rico Trench | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| English | Porto Rico Trough | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| English | Puerto Rico Trough | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| Russian | Zhelob Puerto-Riko | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
| Russian | Желоб Пуэрто-Рико | US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) |
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| PlaceType |
Trench |
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| Latitude |
19° 55' 8.2" N (19.91893865°) |
| Longitude |
65° 12' 3.1" W (-65.20084991°) |
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| Min. Lat |
19° 15' 0" N (19.25°) |
| Min. Long |
68° 30' 0" W (-68.5°) |
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| Max. Lat |
19° 55' 17" N (19.9214°) |
| Max. Long |
62° 0' 0" W (-62°) |
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| Source |
IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/ |
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| Notes |
(en): Updated coordinates (GEBCO May 2014) -
Previous values (GEBCO October 2002):
[Min. Lat: 19.5°] |
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GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: U.S. survey vessel "San Pablo". Year of discovery: 1955. History: Named from the nearby island of Puerto Rico (also called Porto Rico). |
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Additional information (en): This trench, under this name, was explored and sounded by submarines making gravity studies in the 1930s, well before USS San Pablo operations. |
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Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: 20; Longitude: -66 |
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ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -155074 |
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Species
occurring
in this area (1) |
Ceratocuma amoena Jones, 1969
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| Edit history |
Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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