Marine Place Names

Description

This layer displays coastal and offshore marine place names. These are general names for areas of the sea as published on the NOAA Nautical Charts. Different marine place names are displayed depending on the scale you are zoomed into on the map. This layer was created by extracting the Natural Features, Sea Area Named Water Areas from all scale bands in the NOAA Electronic Navigation Charts.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 MarinePlaceNames.zip https://marinecadastre.gov/downloads/data/mc/MarinePlaceNames.zip
0 Marine Cadastre Data Registry https://marinecadastre.gov/data/
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/56793
0 Website listed for Office for Coastal Management https://www.coast.noaa.gov/
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/56793.pdf

Tags

  • human dimensions
  • valley
  • alaska
  • united states of america
  • office of coastal management
  • canal
  • environmental governance/management
  • peak
  • national ocean service
  • east coast
  • mud flats
  • west coast
  • seamount
  • usvi
  • shoal
  • basin
  • knoll
  • united states
  • continent
  • river
  • noaa
  • hawaii
  • gap
  • pacific
  • fan
  • north america
  • abyssal plain
  • hole
  • doc/noaa/nos/ocm
  • gulf of mexico
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • sea channel
  • bank
  • escarpment
  • plateau
  • atlantic
  • spur
  • sea
  • reach
  • us virgin islands
  • ridge
  • ledge
  • fracture zone
  • marinecadastre
  • narrows
  • canyon
  • bay
  • national
  • trench
  • reef
  • puerto rico
  • pinnacle
  • lake
  • great lakes

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