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Mapping and Geographic Information Centre, British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB3 0ET
United Kingdom
magic@bas.ac.uk
https://www.bas.ac.uk/teams/magic
Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) - BAS public website
General information about the BAS Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) public website.
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pointOfContact
2025-05-18
ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry
2008-11-12
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European Petroleum Survey Group
EPSGadministrator@iogp.org
https://www.epsg-registry.org/
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset
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urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
6.18.3
Scale0 vector polygon of the Antarctic coastline
1993
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1993
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1993
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1993
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1.0
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Cooper, P., Fox, A., Thomson, J., Edwards, M., Jordan, S., & Swithinbank, C. (1993). Scale0 vector polygon of the Antarctic coastline (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/77be89f3-1f60-4749-b1b0-5f037e3d25e5
If using for a graphic or if short on space, please cite as 'Data from the SCAR Antarctic Digital Database, 2024'.
The first edition of the Antarctic Digital Database (ADD) coastline polygon dataset. A compilation of source data from eleven national mapping agencies at data scales no larger than 1:200,000/1:250:000. Polygon dataset was originally published on CD-ROM in 1993, in tiled Coverage format. Data has since been converted and merged to a single dataset and exported to shapefile and geopackage formats. Scale0 is the highest resolution that was produced.
Each polygon has a surface attribute (CST00SRF) indicating the type of feature it represents, ie. ice shelf, ice tongue, land, ocean and rumple.
For information on source of polygon delineations, refer to coincident features in the polyline dataset, Scale0 vector polylines of the Antarctic coastline v1.0.
The ADD project was first proposed in 1990 by a Cambridge (UK) based consortium comprising British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (now UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC)). International participation in the project was agreed through the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and its Working Group on Geodesy and Geographic Information
The majority of data capture and data management was undertaken in Cambridge, UK. Work was initially funded by BAS and by The British Petroleum Company p.l.c (BP). Other contributing nations sponsored their own data capture through either their national mapping agencies or their Antarctic research organisations.
BP had no commercial interest in the project and the information gained from this database was in the public domain. BAS, SPRI, WCMC and SCAR, by entering into this project with BP, in no way implied their acceptance or endorsement of any exploration activity for oil, gas or minerals in Antarctica.
For full details on the dataset, please refer to the ADD Manual v1.0: [https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517623/](https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517623/).
Due to the very wide and legacy sources of the data for this compilation, the dataset attributes are inconsistent in format and incomplete. The data are published as they stood at the time of their first publication in 1993. The most recent version of the Antarctic Digital Database is available at: [https://data.bas.ac.uk/items/e74543c0-4c4e-4b41-aa33-5bb2f67df389/](https://data.bas.ac.uk/items/e74543c0-4c4e-4b41-aa33-5bb2f67df389/)
High resolution (scale0) polygons of the Antarctic coastline. This dataset was originally published in tiled coverage format. Data has since been converted and merged to a single dataset and exported to shapefile and GeoPackage formats. The data are published as they stood at the time of their first publication.
Cooper, Paul
British Antarctic Survey
author
Fox, Adrian
British Antarctic Survey
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7477-0671
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Thompson, Janet
British Antarctic Survey
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Edwards, Mary
British Antarctic Survey
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Jordan, Sue
British Antarctic Survey
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Swithinbank, Charles
SPRI
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Mapping and Geographic Information Centre, British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB3 0ET
United Kingdom
magic@bas.ac.uk
https://www.bas.ac.uk/teams/magic
Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) - BAS public website
General information about the BAS Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) public website.
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pointOfContact
UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB3 0ET
United Kingdom
polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) - BAS public website
General information about the NERC Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) public website.
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publisher
Standing Committee on Antarctic Research
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 1ER
United Kingdom
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BP
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This information is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). To view this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB3 0ET
United Kingdom
polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) - BAS public website
General information about the NERC Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) public website.
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British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) Discovery Metadata Profile
2024-11-01
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Mapping and Geographic Information Centre, British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB3 0ET
United Kingdom
magic@bas.ac.uk
https://www.bas.ac.uk/teams/magic
Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) - BAS public website
General information about the BAS Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) public website.
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Resource within scope of British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) Discovery Metadata Profile.
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Compiled using data from eleven national mapping agencies at data scales no larger than 1:200,000/1:250:000. Dataset was originally published in tiled Coverage format, using Esri ArcInfo. Data has now been merged to a single dataset using ArcMap v10.8 and exported to shapefile and geopackage formats. A number of slithers were removed from the merged data where source tiles were adjacent. Each polygon has a surface attribute (CST00SRF) indicating the type of feature it represents, ie. ice shelf, ice tongue. Data sources are dated between 1956-1990.
For full details on the dataset, including bibliography of sources, please refer to the ADD Manual v1.0: https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517623/