Mexican island named after French explorer Cousteau
November 18th, 2009 - 1:39 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )Mexico City, Nov 18 (EFE) Cerralvo, an uninhabited island in the Sea of Cortez, has been named after French explorer Jacques Cousteau, Mexican authorities said.
The INEGI statistics institute said Tuesday that it will undertake steps to register the island’s name change in the National Registry of Geographical Information, where the archipelago’s “continental, insular, and underwater” topography will be recorded.
French explorer Jacques Cousteau (1910-97) spent a great deal of time studying marine life in the Sea of Cortez.
On June 22, the Jacques Cousteau Observatory of Oceans and Coasts was inaugurated in Mexico, in the city of La Paz.
In Mexico, islands, keys and reefs are administered by the federal government.
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