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Antarctic Gazetteer
Description:	A catalogue of Antarctic Names from the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica, the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and lists of other less formal names.
Navigation:	Australian Antarctic Data Centre  »  Observational data
Application Group:	Geographic Information
Links to:	Home Page Search Page
Development Status:	In production
Who's responsible:	Proponet: Henk Brolsma Developers: Miles Jordan Development Group: AADC
Languages used:	Cold Fusion
Relevant Programs	Station and Field Operations GIS & Mapping Antarctic Treaty and Government Section
What Data is already loaded	Complete up to about November 2002. Need to load last SCAR update - see Theta/AADC/App_dev/Gazetter for additional load files.
Approximate cardinality of the main recordset	2,500

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News

SCAR Composite Gazetteer update   - 22-Jul-2003

added 136 new names, mostly from New Zealand. Fine examples are Starbuck Cirque and 3 names after the Soyuz missions.

  - 13-May-2003

Added 13 new Polish names to the SCAR Composite Gazetteer.

Dataset Growth

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