Google Earth Community: Islands Gazetteer

This distributed geodatabase include next network links:
Atoll, Oceanic island, Oceanic island group

Attributes:
NAME | CATEGORY | DESCRIPT | WITHIN | FIPS_CNTRY

Search of features by name Ctrl+F
See description by Ctrl+left mouse click

Credits: GEOnet Names Server (GNS)
* The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names. The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the US BGN. Approximately 20,000 of the database's features are updated monthly.
* Geographic Area of Coverage: Worldwide excluding the United States and Antarctica. For names in the U.S. and Antarctica, visit the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) web site.
* The GNS contains 4.0 million features with 5.5 million names (approximate).
* The coordinate system for data served by GNS is WGS84.
* Coordinates in the GEOnet Names Server are approximate and are intended for finding purposes only.
* The online database is updated on a bi-weekly schedule.
http://earth-info.nima.mil/gns/html/

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Edited by Valery35 (03/06/06 05:11 AM)

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