GBIF 17493324

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Summary: GBIF 17493324
Status: Open
Created: 2015-11-11 12:34:59.604
Updated: 2015-11-11 14:20:11.904
        
        
Description: the record GBIF 17493324 mentions Lophelia Pertusa in Greenland from "the Gully
The source seems to be DFO (canadian agency)
The Gully is a well known locality in Canada and not in Greenland. The first record of Lophelia pertusa in (W)Greenland is described the attatched file.


*Reporter*: Helle Jørgensbye
*E-mail*: [mailto:oevlis@hotmail.com]]]>
    

Author: rdmpage
Created: 2015-11-11 14:20:11.904
Updated: 2015-11-11 14:20:11.904
        
Looks like the coordinates have been swapped. The verbatim record (59.0333,-43.7) puts it off the coast of Greenland:

!https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?size=200x200&maptype=satellite&markers=59.0333,-43.7&zoom=4!

If we swap values (but not sign) of lat and long  (43.7,-59.0333) we get it off the coast of Canada

!https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?size=200x200&maptype=satellite&markers=43.7,-59.0333&zoom=4!

Zoom in and you see that the swapped values are in the "Gully Protected Marine Area"
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=43.7&mlon=-59.0333&zoom=6