BAS Data Catalogue

Version:: 1.0
Released:: 2020-11-06T19:04:54
Status:: Current
Collections:: Antarctic Digital Database (Supplementary)
Topics:: Living and working in Antarctica

Abstract

Point locations of Antarctic historic sites and monuments. Data compiled using 'Revised List of Historic Sites and Monuments Measure 9 (2016) Annex' pdf from Antarctic Treaty Secretariat (https://www.ats.aq/e/protected.html), for adding to Antarctic Digital Database (ADD) visualisation.

Data compiled, managed and distributed by the Mapping and Geographic Information Centre and the UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey on behalf of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.

Keywords

ISO Topics

society

INSPIRE themes

Buildings
Protected Sites

GCMD Science Keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREAS
HUMAN SETTLEMENTS

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Web Map Service (WMS)	N/A
GeoPackage	0.164MB	Download item
Shapefile	0.021MB	Download item

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Server URL: https://maps.bas.ac.uk/antarctic/wms
Layer name: add:antarctic_historic_sites
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Authors

Gerrish, Laura

British Antarctic Survey

Email: lauger@bas.ac.uk

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1410-9122

Citation

Please cite this item as: 'Gerrish, L. (2020). Locations of Antarctic historic sites and monuments (1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/7a6fddc4-291c-4673-af87-0a040616e812'.

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Extent

Location keywords

ANTARCTICA GCMD Location Keywords

Bounding coordinates

Top-right corner:: North: -58.0, East: 180.0
Bottom-left corner:: South: -90.0, West: -180.0

Temporal range

: From: 2016-01-01, To: 2020-11-03

Lineage

Locations of historic sites and monuments taken from 'Revised List of Historic Sites and Monuments Measure 9 (2016) Annex' pdf from Antarctic Treaty Secretariat (https://www.ats.aq/e/protected.html), in April 2020.

Additional Information

Item ID:: 7a6fddc4-291c-4673-af87-0a040616e812
Item type:: Dataset
Data type:: Vector
Spatial reference system:: WGS 84 / Antarctic Polar Stereographic (EPSG:3031)
Language: English (United Kingdom)
Character set: UTF-8
Item created: 2020
Item published: 2020-11-06T19:04:54
Item released: 2020-11-06T19:04:54
Item updated: 2020-05-12
Update frequency:: As Needed
Status:: Current

Metadata information

Language: English (United Kingdom)
Character set: UTF-8
Status:: Completed
Last updated:: 2020-11-06
Update frequency:: As Needed
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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