Obtaining hard copy maps or charts
Contact the Australian Antarctic Data Centre for copies of maps published by National Mapping, the Australian Surveying and Land Information Group or the Australian Antarctic Division.
The Australian Hydrographic Service (AHS) website has information about obtaining nautical charts produced by the AHS, including chart distributers .
Refer to the Land Information New Zealand website for information about obtaining maps published by New Zealand.
Maps for sale published by the British Antarctic Survey can be purchased from Stanfords .
Maps of Antarctica published by the U.S. Geological Survey are available at the USGS Store and may also be available at East View Geospatial .
The Norwegian Polar Institute is the main authority in charge of the topographic mapping of the Norwegian territorial claims in the Antarctic and has maps available for purchase.
Russian maps of Antarctica may be available at East View Geospatial .
The Australian Antarctic Data Centre has no information about obtaining hard copy maps or charts not mentioned above.
A list of all publishing authorities by country used throughout the SCAR Map Catalogue
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Instituto Antartico Argentina
Instituto Geografico Militar, Buenos Aires
Servicio de Hidrografia Naval del Ministerio de Marina, Buenos Aires
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems (ACE) Cooperative Research Centre
Antarctic Division, Department of External Affairs
Australian Antarctic Division
Australian Construction Services
Australian Geographic Cartographic Division
Australian Geological Survey Organisation
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
Australian National Library
Australian Ocean Data Centre Joint Facility
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Authority
Australian Survey Office - Victoria
Australian Surveying and Land Information Group, Department of Administrative Services, Canberra
Bureau of Meteorology, Department of the Environment and Heritage
Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Canberra
Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Department of National Development, Canberra
Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Department of Primary Industries and Energy
Bureau of Rural Sciences
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Curtin University of Technology
DataVision GIS P/L
Department of Administrative Services Construction Group
Department of Construction, Victoria and Tasmania Region
Department of Housing and Construction
Department of Minerals & Energy, Bureau of Mineral Resources
Department of Minerals & Energy, Division of National Mapping
Department of National Development, Division of National Mapping
Department of National Resources, Division of National Mapping
Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment
Department of Resources and Energy, Division of National Mapping
Department of the Environment and Heritage
Department of the Interior, National Mapping Section
Department of Works, Victorian and Tasmanian Branch
Departments of Interior and External Affairs
Division of National Mapping
Geoscience Australia
Government Printing Office
Hydrographic Service, Department of the Navy, Wollongong
Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies
La Trobe University
LANDINFO Pty Ltd
Macquarie University
Mineral Resources Tasmania
Parks and Wildlife Service, Tasmania
Property and Survey Branch, Department of the Interior
Tasmanian Dept. of Tourism, Parks, Heritage and the Arts
Telegraph, Brisbane
The Australian Antarctic Foundation
The National Tidal Facility
The Royal Society of Tasmania
The University of Melbourne
The University of Wollongong
University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Institute Geographique Militaire, Bruxelles
National Geographic Institute of Belgium
SCAR-Marine Biodiversity Information Network
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Botswana
Bouvet Island
Brazil
Brazil Hydrographic Office
British Indian Ocean Territory
Brunei Darussalam
Bulgaria
Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria
Manfred Wörner Foundation
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Canada. Energy, Mines and Resources
Canadian Hydrographic Service
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
Centro de Estudios Cientificos
Instituto Antartico Chileno
Instituto Geografico Militar
Instituto Hidrografico de la Armada, Valparaiso
China
Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University
Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration
Wuhan University Publishing House
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Columbia
Comoros
Congo
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Cote D'ivoire
Croatia (local name: hrvatska)
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Ecuador
Instituto Oceanografico de la Armada
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Falkland Islands (malvinas)
Faroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
Finland
France
Expeditions Polaires Francaises
Institut de Physique du Globe, Strasbourg
Institut Geographique National
Not Stated
Service Hydrographique de la Marine
Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises, Paris
UNESCO
France, metropolitan
French Guiana
French Polynesia
French Southern Territories
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Frankfurt am Main
Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH), Hamburg - Rostock
Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Hannover
Fachbereich Vermessungswesen und Kartographie, Fachhochschule München
Forschungsstelle für physikalische Glaziologie, Universität Münster
Geisler/Hermann, Karlsruhe
Geographisches Institut, Universitaet Heidelberg
German Geodetic Commission
Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie, Frankfurt am Main
Institut für Erdmessung, Universität Hannover
Institut für Geologie und Dynamik der Lithosphäre, Universität Göttingen
Institut fur Physische Geographie, Universitaet Freiburg
Institut für Vermessungskunde, Universität Braunschweig
Institute for Photogrammetry and Cartography
Justus Perthes, Gotha
Kommission für Glaziologie, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, München
Verlag Georg Reimer
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Heard and McDonald islands
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Geological Survey of India
India
Indonesia
International
International Hydrographic Organisation
International Oceanographic Commission
UNESCO
Iran (islamic republic of)
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Istituto Idrografico della Marina
Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide
Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide
Jamaica
Japan
Geographical Survey Institute, Ministry of Construction
Hydrographic Division, Maritime Safety Agency
Japan Polar Research Association
Japanese Antarctic Research Expeditions
National Institute of Polar Research
Not Stated
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
Korea, Republic of
Korea
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libyan arab jamahiriya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova, Republic of
Monaco
International Hydrographic Bureau, Monaco
Mongolia
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht
Netherlands
Technische Universiteit Delft
Netherlands Antilles
Neutral zone
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Department of Lands and Survey
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Department of Survey and Land Information
Gateway Antarctica
Geological Survey
Geophysics Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited
Land Information New Zealand
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, Wellington
Not Stated
Oceanographic Institute, Wellington: Antarctic Research Centre
Royal Society of New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
Directorate of Overseas Surveys
H.E. Hansen, Norsk Polarinstitutt, Oslo
Norsk Polarinstitutt, Oslo
Norwegian Whalers Assurance Association
Not Stated
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn
Poland
Department of Antarctic Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Department of Polar Research
Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw University of Technology
Institute of Ecology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Not Stated
Polish Geophysics Institute
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Reunion
Romania
Russia
Administration of the Chief of the Naval Hydrographic Service
Arctic and Antarctic Scientific Research Institute, Leningrad (Soyuzmorrny Project)
Hydrographic Department of the Navy
Main Administration of Geodesy and Cartography,Moscow
Ministry of Geology of the USSR, Department of Geology and Mineral Resources of Antarctica
Ministry of Merchant Fleet of the U.S.S.R.
Sevmorgeologija, Sankt Peterburg
Soviet Antarctic Expedition
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia (slovak republic)
Slovenia
Solomon islands
Somalia
South Africa
Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping
South African Hydrographic Office
South African Scientific Centre for Antarctic Research
Trigonometrical Survey
Spain
Instituto Hidrografico de la Marina
Servicio Geografico Del Ejercito
Spain
Sri Lanka
St. Helena
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Sudan
Suriname
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
Swaziland
Sweden
Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University
Sweden
Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania, United Republic of
Thailand
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Antarctic Place-Names Committee, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Centre for Remote Sensing, University of Bristol
Charles Knight & Co.
Civil Aviation Authority
Director of Military Survey, Ministry of Defence
Directorate of Colonial Surveys (Publishing Authority now: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge CB3 OET)
Directorate of Military Surveys (Publishing Authority also: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge CB3 OET)
Directorate of Overseas Surveys (Publishing Authority now: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge CB3 OET)
Hakluyt Society
Hydrographic Department, Ministry of Defence
J. Batholomew
Not Stated
Ocean Explorer Maps
Royal Geographical Society
Scott Polar Research Institute
Stanford's Geographical Establishment, London
Stanfords International Map Centre
The Admiralty
The Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St. Mary
UK Antarctic Place-names Committee
United States minor outlying islands
United States of America
American Geographical Society
Central Intelligence Agency
Defence Mapping Agency, Aerospace Center
Defence Mapping Agency, Hydrographic Center
National Academy of Science
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Geographic Society
National Science Foundation
Not Stated
Polar Geospatial Center
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists
The Omega Foundation
United States Armed Forces
US Geological Survey
US Naval Oceanographic Office
US Naval Photographic Interpretation Center
USAF Aeronautical Chart and Information Service
Unknown
Uruguay
Military Geographical Service of Uruguay
Uruquay
USSR
Main Administration of Geodesy and Cartography, Ministry of Geology, USSR
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City State (Holy See)
Venezuela
Vietnam
Virgin Islands (British)
Virgin Islands (USA)
Wallis and Futuna Islands
Western Sahara
Yemen, Republic of
Yugoslavia
Zaire
Zambia
Zimbabwe