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Nashville
Norfolk Seamount
KEY
OF AMERICA sea level
Cape 1
Hatteras H a t t e r a s R i d g e (250 m)
800 ft
Onslow Sohm 1,600 ft
Myrtle Beach Bay Plain (500 m)
3,300 ft
Long BERMUDA 5,464m (1,000 m)
Florida-Hatteras Slope B l a k e E s c a r p m e n t H Sargasso (5,000 m) 2
Charleston Bay B e r m u d a R i s e (17,927ft) 6,500 ft
5,255m
Savannah Richardson (17,242ft) 30ºN (2,000 m)
9,800 ft
Hills
(3,000 m)
Hoyt
16,400 ft
Hills
Savannah
Jacksonville Blake Blake Spur B l a k e - B a h a m a R i d g e P a t Sea land
t
seamount
Blake
l
Knoll
Plain
Cape Plateau Abyssal a e Eastward sea depth
Researcher
Canaveral i r Seamount maximum depth
Tampa Blake n a on map
Basin tectonic plate
Little Great Abaco s boundary
Bahama Canyon 3
Bank
Great Bahama
Fort Great A TLANTIC Tropic of Cancer
Lauderdale Bahama Great
Island Abaco Bahama
Miami BAHAMAS Canyon Eleuthera Island Basin
Andros OCEAN
Wes t Fl o r ida Sh elf
Florida Keys Island Nassau Bahama
S t r a i t s o f F l o r i d a
Pourtales Escarpment Tongue of the Ocean Exuma Valley Vema Gap
West Florida Slope
Escarpment
Cay Sal
Bank Great Bahama Bank Nares 6,081m
Plain (19,952ft)
Exuma Sound
Havana de Sabana S a n t a r e n C h a n n e l Long 20ºN 4
Archipiélago
Island TURKS &
CAICOS
Golfo Archipiélago ISLANDS
5,868m
de Batabano Cienfuegos Acklins Island (19,253ft)
de Camagüey
Isla de la
Juventud Great Inagua Mouchoir Passage
G r e a t e C U B A P u e r t o R i c o Tr e n ch
8,962m
Yucatan r Golfo de Santiago Guantanamo Hispaniola Basin (29,404ft) BRITISH L e e w a r d

Bay
Basin Guacanayabo de Cuba Windward Passage Cap-Haïtien 647m VIRGIN Tintamarre

6,691m
(2,123ft)
DOMINICAN Mona Canyon PUERTO ISLANDS Anegada Passage Spur I s l a n (21,953ft)
CAYMAN
Cabo Cruz
C a y m a n R i d g e Montego Golfe de la HAITI Hispaniola Mona Passage RICO San Anegada Gap ANGUILLA d s Barracuda 5
ISLANDS
REPUBLIC
Cayman Trench
Gonâve
Juan
ANTIGUA &
Virgin Passage
Jérémie
BARBUDA
ST KITTS
7,680m
NAVASSA
5,830m (25,198ft) Bay ISLAND Port-au Santo Ponce VIRGIN & NEVIS St John’s Ridge
Domingo
(19,128ft) -Prince MONTSERRAT Guadeloupe Passage
JAMAICA Jamaica Channel A Muert os Tr ou gh ISLANDS GUADELOUPE s
Gibbs
Kingston n t i l l e s Seamount d
Dominica Passage
5,550m Basse-Terre n
Pedro 960m (18,210ft) DOMINICA a
Bank 4,536m (3,150ft) Martinique Passage l
Nicaraguan Rosalind Car ibbean (14,883ft) Venezuelan Fort-de-France s l e MARTINIQUE s I 6
B e a t a R i d g e
St Lucia Channel
Bank
Rise
Basin
ST LUCIA
Grenada
Sue Ridge
BARBADOS
St Vincent Channel
Basin
4,828m
Trough
Sea
ST. VINCENT
(15,841ft)
4,557m
l
Mosquito Coast Mosquito Bank San Andrés Trough Calarca Bank Pedro Escarpment Colombian Punta ARUBA Curaçao Bonaire Islas los Aves Ridge (9,833ft) i t TRINIDAD i n d w a r d Barbados Bridgetown
Tobago
2,997m
(14,952ft)
Aruba Gap
Basin
GRENADA
2,319m
(7,609ft)
St George’s
n
Los Roques Basin
Tobago
A
Oranjestad
W
Willemstad
Roques
Seamount
Nutibara Trough Saury Basin Rióhacha Gallinas Gulf of NETHERLANDS L 1,390m s s Isla de r Isla de & TOBAGO Trinidad 10ºN
e
Margarita
e
ANTILLES
Port-of-Spain
Venezuela
Gulf of
Bonaire
Paría
Clark Barranquilla Coro Basin (4,561ft) Tortuga Cumaná 7
Mono Rise
Basin 3,531m Santa Caracas
(11,585ft) Marta Maracaibo Barcelona
3,493m Cartagena
(11,460ft)
Limón Maracaibo Lake
Volcán Gulf of
Bank Colón VENEZUELA
Panama Canal Darien
Orinoco
Panama ATLAS OF THE OCEANS
PANAMA City
Magdalena
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