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Hillshade for South Georgia

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16 May 2024

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Produced by the Mapping and Geographic Information Centre, British Antarctic Survey, 2026, version 1, https://data.bas.ac.uk/items/3c48b2f3-167f-48c1-b7e1-368c827f5135.

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Hillshade covering South Georgia at 10m resolution, derived from Reference Elevation Mosaic of Antarctica (REMA) v2.0 10m mosaic dataset. It is a traditional hillshade with a Z factor of 1. The hillshade extent matches the current coastline available via the South Georgia GIS.

Projection: WGS84 South Georgia Lambert, EPSG: 3762

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Ireland, Louise

British Antarctic Survey

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0960-0486

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Open Government Licence (OGL 3.0)

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UK Research and Innovation

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Bounding Coordinates

South-West Corner (min x/y): South: -55.719147, West: -39.3338982
North-East Corner (max x/y): North: -53.6244688, East: -34.6946202

Lineage Statement

Using ArcGIS Pro v3.2, a traditional hillshade with a Z factor of 1 was constructed using the the REMA v2.0 10m tile that covers South Georgia. The output was then clipped by the coastline obtained through the South Georgia GIS (https://www.sggis.gov.gs/home/sggis). There were two small areas of no data in the input DEM that were not classified as such. Therefore these areas were set as null in the output hillshade.

Data sources:

Coastline: Accessed from the South Georgia GIS, 2023
REMA v2.0 DEM: Polar Geospatial Centre and Howat, Ian, et al., 2022, “The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica – Mosaics, Version 2”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EBW8UC, Harvard Dataverse, V1, accessed November 2023

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BAS Antarctic Mapping Datasets

A collection of geospatial datasets and basemaps of Antarctica published by the British Antarctic Survey's Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC).

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Item Information

Item ID: 3c48b2f3-167f-48c1-b7e1-368c827f5135
Item Type: PRODUCT
Projection: EPSG:3762
Item created: 16 May 2024
Item published: 16 May 2024
Item released: 16 May 2024
Item Status: Item is complete and recommended for general use
Item Update Frequency: Item may be updated if needed

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Last updated: 26 February 2026
Metadata Standard: ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
Metadata Standard Version: ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
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