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| Code | Feature Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 102 | Aerial photograph centre | Aerial photograph centre. Each point represents the centre point of a photograph taken. The scale of the photography is approximately 1:3 000 to 1:70 000 |
| 103 | Aerial photography flight line | Aerial photography flight lines. The lines represent the path the aircraft flew while collecting photography. |
| 135 | Building | A permanent walled and roofed construction or the ruin of such a construction. |
| 140 | Camp | A temporary residence, when away from the station. |
| 142 | Cave | An underground hollow with access from the ground surface or from the sea, often found in limestone areas and on rocky coastlines. |
| 148 | Coastline | A line or zone where the land meets the sea or some other large expanse of water. This includes the boundaries of continent and island feature types. |
| 153 | Control point | A location where the geographic coordinates have been measured. |
| 179 | Fish | Cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates. |
| 184 | Flying Bird | Feathered vertebrate with two wings and two feet. |
| 191 | Fuel depot | A storeplace for drums of fuel. |
| 196 | Glacier | A mass of snow and ice continuously moving from higher to lower ground or, if afloat, continuously spreading. |
| 197 | Glacier boundary | The approximate boundary of a mass of flowing ice. |
| 298 | Ice shelf | A floating ice sheet of considerable thickness attached to a coast. Ice shelves are usually of great horizontal extent and have a level or gently undulating surface. They are nourished by the accumulation of snow and often by seaward extension of land glaciers. Limited areas may be aground. The seaward edge is termed an ice front. |
| 598 | Ice shelf boundary | The boundary of the ice shelf. |
| 390 | Landing | Natural or human-made places for discharging or taking on passengers and cargo. |
| 234 | Mammal | Any animal of the Mammalia, a large class of warmblooded vertebrates having mammary glands in the female, a thoracic diaphragm, and a four-chambered heart. The class includes the whales, carnivores, rodents, bats, primates, etc. |
| 254 | Penguin | Sea-fowl of southern hemisphere with wings developed into scaly flippers with which it swims under the water. |
| 267 | Protected area | An area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity and/or of natural and associated cultural resources. The area is managed through legal or other effective means. |
| 281 | Route | Any established or selected course for passage or travel. |
| 549 | Site record | To record site information relating any sort of study |
| 311 | Stair | A set of steps |
| 312 | Station | A place where there is permanent human habitation and infrastructure serving as a base for scientific research. |
| 576 | Vegetation type | A community of plants or plant life that share distinguishable characteristics. |