Antarctic Peninsula overview
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Antarctic Peninsula overview
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Produced by the Mapping and Geographic Information Centre, British Antarctic Survey, 2025, version 1,
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A small overview map of the Antarctic Peninsula region, including the South Shetland Islands and South Orkney
Islands. Bathymetry is indicated with a blue colour ramp, and a hillshade and rock outcrop are shown on
land. Selected place names are also included.
Map projection: WGS84 Antarctic Polar Stereographic: Central Meridian 60°W, Standard Parallel 71°S
Data sources and references can be found in the lineage.
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A small overview map of the Antarctic Peninsula region, including the South Shetland Islands and South Orkney
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Gerrish, Laura
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British Antarctic Survey
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+44 (0)1223 221400
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British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road
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Cambridge
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Cambridgeshire
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magic@bas.ac.uk
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+44 (0)1223 221400
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British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road
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Cambridge
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Cambridgeshire
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CB3 0ET
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United Kingdom
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magic@bas.ac.uk
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British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) Discovery
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+44 (0)1223 221400
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British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road
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Cambridge
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Cambridgeshire
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CB3 0ET
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United Kingdom
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magic@bas.ac.uk
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https://www.bas.ac.uk/teams/magic
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Map produced in ArcGIS Pro v3.3. Data sources:
* Coastline and rock outcrop: SCAR Antarctic Digital Database, 2024.
* Bathymetry: Dorschel, Boris; et al (2022): The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean
Version 2 (IBCSO v2) [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.937574
* Hillshade: produced from PGC REMA - 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
16th January 2025.
* Place names: selected from the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee gazetteer, accessed January 2025.
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