Mooring sites in the Turks and Caicos Islands

The dataset comprises dive boat, snorkel boat and yacht moorings throughout the Turks and Caicos Islands installed and mainataned by the Turks and Caicos Reef Fund in the frame of Dive mooring project.

The data can be visualised at: https://webgis.gov.tc

Data and Resources

Additional Info

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Last Updated September 8, 2021, 17:58 (UTC)
Created December 1, 2020, 15:16 (UTC)
Region TC
Language eng
Topic Category Environment; environmental resources, protection and conservation
Temporal Extent Start 2012-01-01
Temporal Extent End 2017-04-07
Dataset Reference Date 2017
Lineage The mooring sites are installed under the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Environment and Coastal Resources (DECR). The anchors are installed in different types of the bottom: sand (Helix Anchor), rock (rock pin) or other existing features (e.g. wreck). The coordinates of mooring sites were collected using a GPS receiver in WGS 84 coordinate system.
West Longitude -72.48217
South Latitude 21.48975
East Longitude -72.11
North Latitude 21.9099
Spatial Reference System WGS84
Responsible Organisation Name Turks and Caicos Reef Fund
Contact Mail Address info@tcreef.org
Responsible Party Role resource provider, custodian, owner, user, distributor, originator, point of contact, processor, publisher and author
Access Limitations Restricted, send data request to point of contact
Use Constraints Open
Data Format shape, csv
Update Frequency as needed
Accuracy high
Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date 2020-11-30
Metadata Point of Contact mgorny@saeri.ac.fk
Contact Consent Contact details published