Feature Type

Feature Type Name

Reef

Synonyms

Definition

A mass or ridge of rocks rising above the surrounding sea or lake bottom to or nearly to the surface, and dangerous to navigation of vessels.

Comments

Table Name

REEF

Australia's Implementation Table Names

  • REEF_PT
  • REEF_PY

SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica Feature Class

5 - Islands - Islands and any kind of isolated feature emerging from water

None entered in defining this feature type

The following have been used in categorising this feature type

  • Nautical
Code Name Definition   Data type Values UoM Used by these Feature Types
1029 Certainty Undoubted fact Mandatory character(50)
label Definition
Approximate In the data capture process the feature was evident but its location was not entirely clear
Connector A line that is introduced for data completeness, e.g. a line used to close polygons, to represent missing data or data that is not visible.
Definite High level of confidence that the feature is correctly located.
Inferred In the data capture process the feature was not evident but the location of the feature was inferred
Interpolated The location of the feature was determined by interpolation
Unknown
  Types
1042 Dataset_Id An unique identifier of the dataset the feature belongs to Mandatory number(4)     Types
1150 Q_Info An unique identifier pointing to additional data quality information not included in the metadata record. Mandatory number(5)     Types
1090 SCAR_Gaz_Id Reference number as in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica Mandatory number(10)     Types
1127 SCAR_Name A placename name in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica. These names have been contributed by national gazetteers. Mandatory character(100)     Types