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Marine Place Names
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.
Complete Metadata
| @type | dcat:Dataset |
|---|---|
| accessLevel | public |
| contactPoint |
{
"fn": "Not provided - Contact data.gov",
"hasEmail": "mailto:datagovsupport@gsa.gov"
}
|
| describedByType | application/octet-steam |
| 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. |
| distribution |
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"description": "NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort.",
"downloadURL": "https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/56793.pdf",
"describedByType": "application/octet-steam"
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"description": "Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 22. 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",
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},
{
"@type": "dcat:Distribution",
"title": "Office for Coastal Management Website",
"mediaType": "placeholder/value",
"description": "Website listed for Office for Coastal Management",
"downloadURL": "https://www.coast.noaa.gov/",
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}
]
|
| identifier | gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:56793 |
| issued | 2019-07-17T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
[
"EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA",
"abyssal plain",
"bank",
"basin",
"bay",
"canal",
"canyon",
"escarpment",
"fan",
"fracture zone",
"gap",
"hole",
"knoll",
"lake",
"ledge",
"mud flats",
"narrows",
"peak",
"pinnacle",
"plateau",
"reach",
"reef",
"ridge",
"river",
"sea",
"sea channel",
"seamount",
"shoal",
"spur",
"trench",
"valley",
"Alaska",
"Atlantic",
"East Coast",
"Great Lakes",
"Gulf of Mexico",
"Hawaii",
"National",
"Pacific",
"Puerto Rico",
"US Virgin Islands",
"USVI",
"United States",
"West Coast",
"DOC/NOAA/NOS/OCM > Office of Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
"MarineCadastre"
]
|
| landingPage | https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/56793 |
| language |
[]
|
| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2019-07-17T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
{
"name": "Office for Coastal Management",
"@type": "org:Organization"
}
|
| references |
[
"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/56793.pdf"
]
|
| spatial | 179.853756,-64.825047,-179.831378,79.121667 |
| title | Marine Place Names |
