Rothera Station Hazards and Instruments
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Rothera Station Hazards and Instruments
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Produced by the Mapping and Geographic Information Centre, British Antarctic Survey, 2026, version 5,
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Site map of Rothera Research Station, showing locations of hazards, instruments, buildings, and access and
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Projection: WGS84 UTM Zone 19S / Vertical datum: EGM2008.
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Site map of Rothera Research Station, showing locations of hazards, instruments, buildings, and access and
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British Antarctic Survey
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British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) Discovery
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British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road
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magic@bas.ac.uk
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Map Produced in ArcGIS Pro v3.7. Zoning and instrument location data was collated by Mapping and
Geographic Information Centre, and checked with appropriate teams.
Data Sources
* Imagery: Rothera minimum snow cover survey orthomosaic, acquired February 2026, British Antarctic Survey
* Coastline: Gerrish, L., Ireland, L., Fretwell, P., Cooper, P., & Skachkova, A. (2026). High resolution
vector polylines of the Antarctic coastline (Version 7.12) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre.
https://doi.org/10.5285/dbaf29f5-c8dc-4e79-aeb1-1df316e951ec - edited to more accurately match imagery.
* Elevation (station area): Rothera minimum snow cover survey 2025, British Antarctic Survey
* Elevation (ramp): Howat, Ian, et al., 2022, “REMA v2”, doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EBW8UC, Harvard Dataverse,
V1, accessed Aug 2026.
* Instruments: BAS Engineering team
* Station and hazard zones: BAS Station Operations and Engineering teams
* Runway restrictions: BAS Air Unit
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