Abstract:
A geographic database of lakes on the Antarctic Peninsula compiled over the past five years from a number of information sources: satellite images, aerial photography, old maps and reports. The database fields include: Lake unique id; Name; location; imager reference/how identified; locality; size (longest axis); area; type (as per Hutchinson's lake classification); reference - any existing scientific work on the lake; salinity; depth; x co-ordinate; y co-ordinate. Many of the lakes are previously unknown, and very few have been studied before. The list represents the first attempt to collate all the lakes in the area into one usable dataset.
The data is available as a down-loadable text file with point co-ordinates, or as a polygon coverage downloadable from the Antarctic Digital database.
Keywords:
Antarctic Peninsula, lakes, limnology
see Antarctic Digital Database - http://www.add.scar.org/home/add7
| Access Constraints: | none |
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| Creation Date: | 2008-05-12 |
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| Dataset Progress: | Complete |
| Dataset Language: | English |
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| Personnel: | |
| Name | Peter T Fretwell |
| Role(s) | Investigator, Metadata Author, Technical Contact |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | UK PDC |
| Role(s) | Technical Contact |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Parent Dataset: | N/A |
| Reference: | Peter Fretwell 2008, Antarctic Peninsula Lake Database. British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge. | |
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| Quality: | location usually to within 100m | |
| Lineage: | The information has been compiled over the past five years from a number of sources: satellite images, aerial photography, old maps and reports. The database includes details on location, salinity, depth, size, type, and any previous work on the lake. Many of the lakes are previously unknown, and very few have been studied before. The list represents the first attempt to collate all the lakes in the area into one usable dataset. | |
| Ownership: | British Antarctic Survey N.E.R.C. |
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| Temporal Coverage: | |
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| Start Date | 2008-01-01 |
| End Date | N/A |
| Spatial Coverage: | |
| Latitude | |
| Southernmost | -82.5 |
| Northernmost | -60.6 |
| Longitude | |
| Westernmost | -83.7 |
| Easternmost | -28.8 |
| Altitude | |
| Min Altitude | N/A |
| Max Altitude | N/A |
| Depth | |
| Min Depth | N/A |
| Max Depth | N/A |
| Location: | |
| Location | Antarctica |
| Detailed Location | British Antarctic Territory |
| Distribution: | |
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| Distribution Media | Online Internet (HTTP) |
| Distribution Size | 100kb |
| Distribution Format | ASCII |
| Fees | nil |