Feature Type

Feature Type Name

Subglacial lake

Synonyms

Definition

Subglacial - Pertaining to the environment beneath a glacier. It refers to the processes by which a glacier moves across its floor in addition to the movements of meltwater at the base of the ice. Lake - An enclosed body of water, usually but not necessarily fresh water, from which the sea is excluded.

Comments

Table Name

Australia's Implementation Table Names

No Implementation Tables

None entered in defining this feature type

None entered in categorising this feature type

Code

Name

Definition

Data type

Values

UoM

Used by these Feature Types

1029

Certainty

Undoubted fact

Optional

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

1272

Gaz_Id

Reference number as in national Gazetteer of Antarctica

Optional

number(10)

Types

1267

Name

Name used to refer or label something. For example waypoints, buildings, and camps. Note: Name does not include SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica placenames. See the attribute SCAR_Name.

Optional

character(100)

Types

1150

Q_Info

An unique identifier pointing to additional data quality information not included in the metadata record.

Optional

number(5)

Types

1215

Water_Type

Optional

character(50)

label	Definition
Fresh
Saline
Unknown

Types