Marine Place Names

Published by Office for Coastal Management | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: December 19, 2025 | Last Modified: 2019-07-17T00:00:00.000+00:00

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.

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Complete Metadata

describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:56793
issued	2019-07-17T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/56793
language	[]
references	[ "https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/56793.pdf" ]
spatial	179.853756,-64.825047,-179.831378,79.121667

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