Antarctica and Southern Ocean Hillshade and Bathymetry
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Antarctica and Southern Ocean Hillshade and Bathymetry
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Hillshade and bathymetry compilation of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, south of 50°S. Created by the
Mapping and Geographic Information Centre, British Antarctic Survey.
Source data is reviewed and updated every 6-12 months to ensure coastline is up to date, and data sources are
appropriate. Available as an Esri Tile Service. The tile layer can be used up to 1:110,000 scale.
Projection: WGS84 Antarctic Polar Stereographic, EPSG 3031
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Hillshade and bathymetry compilation of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, south of 50°S. Created by the
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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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Cambridgeshire
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magic@bas.ac.uk
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Datasets were prepared using ArcGIS Pro v3.5 and published to ArcGIS Online as an Esri Tile Service.
A hillshade of the Antarctic topography was generated using the Antarctic DEM, with a z factor of 4 and
displayed with a brightness enhancement of +15. The Extract By Mask tool was then used to clip the
hillshaded DEM by the Antarctic coastline polygon dataset, to ensure the extent exactly matched the
coastline.
A hillshade of the Sub-Antarctic islands and South America was generated using the GLO90 DEM, with a z
factor of 1. This was clipped by the sub-antarctic coastline polygon dataset.
A hillshade of the bathymetry was generated using a z factor of 6. This was displayed with a transparency
of 30%. Another copy of the bathymetry was styled using a blue to white based on depth, and displayed
with a transparency of 20% and placed on top of the hillshade in the layer ordering.
Data sources:
* Bathymetry: Dorschel, Boris et al. (2022): The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean
Version 2 (IBCSO v2). PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.937574
* Land hillshading Antarctica: 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 2025.
* Land hillshading Sub-Antarctic and South America: European Space Agency (2024). Copernicus Global
Digital Elevation Model. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G9028PQB. Accessed
2026-02-27
* Coastline (Antarctica): Gerrish, L., Ireland, L., Fretwell, P., Cooper, P., & Skachkova, A. (2026). High
resolution vector polygons of the Antarctic coastline 2 (Version 7.12) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar
Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/13c4d2f1-8903-4d7f-8977-592121975554
* Coastline (Sub-Antarctic): Gerrish, L. (2020). Vector polygons of the Sub-Antarctic coastline (1.0)
[Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation.
https://doi.org/10.5285/c1d83502-8799-4e3c-bdca-21db6a4405d4
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