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| Code | Feature Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 101 | Aerial | A structure or device used to transmit or receive radio waves. This includes 'standard', microwave, satellite, or radar antennas and their support structure. |
| 155 | Aircraft Corridor | A corridor defining flight restrictions of aircrafts. A corridor includes the avenue of arrival or departure for aircrafts, which will be close to, and may include, a landing ground or a helipad. |
| 105 | Aircraft Wreckage | The remnants or remains of an aircraft such as an aeroplane or helicopter. |
| 106 | Anchor | A thing affording stability. For use with guys. |
| 109 | Apparatus | A scientific instrument. |
| 112 | AWS | An Automatic Weather Station |
| 120 | Beacon | A structure emitting a guiding or warning signal for navigation |
| 134 | Bridge | A structure that spans and provides a passage over a road, railway, river, or some other obstacle |
| 135 | Building | A permanent walled and roofed construction or the ruin of such a construction. |
| 136 | Bund | An impervious embankment of earth, or a wall of brick, stone, concrete or other suitable material, which may form part or all of the perimeter of a compound that provides a barrier to retain liquid. The bund is designed to contain spillages and leaks from liquids used, stored or processed above-ground, and to facilitate clean-up operations. |
| 137 | Cabinet | An enclosure usually used for housing equipment. |
| 138 | Cable | An assembly of wires within or without a composite sheath. |
| 139 | Cable support | A supporting structure eg. for supporting cables and pipes. |
| 140 | Camp | A temporary residence, when away from the station. |
| 145 | Claim | An area claimed by a country as an external territory of that country. |
| 147 | Cliff boundary | The boundary of the cliff. |
| 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. |
| 149 | Contaminated area | Any site or region that is damaged, harmed or made unfit for use by the introduction of unwanted substances, particularly microorganisms, chemicals, toxic and radioactive materials and wastes. |
| 150 | Continent | One of the larger, unbroken masses of land into which the earth's surface is divided Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, Australia, and Antarctica. |
| 152 | Contour line | Imaginary lines, or lines on a map or chart, that connect points of equal value, e.g. elevation of the land surface. |
| 158 | Crevasse | A fissure formed in a glacier. Crevasses are often hidden by snow bridges. |
| 170 | Embankment | A linear structure, usually of earth or gravel, shaped as to extend above the natural ground surface. |
| 178 | Fence | A mesh, railing, hedge, or the like for preventing free access to an area. |
| 180 | Fitting | A device, connected to a pipe or cable, whose function is usually related to the function of the network. This may be monitoring a gauge, or point of supply eg. a water tap. It includes such features as lighting poles. |
| 184 | Flying Bird | Feathered vertebrate with two wings and two feet. |
| 186 | Food Depot | A place for storing food. |
| 191 | Fuel depot | A storeplace for drums of fuel. |
| 192 | Gate | An opening in a fence or other enclosure, for the purpose of giving pedestrian or vehicular entry and exit, and capable of being closed with a barrier. |
| 193 | Gear Depot | A place for storing goods or vehicles. |
| 194 | Generator | A device for generating electrical energy. |
| 196 | Glacier | A mass of snow and ice continuously moving from higher to lower ground or, if afloat, continuously spreading. |
| 199 | Grounding line | The boundary or zone where the continental ice is grounded and where it floats. |
| 200 | Guy | A cable, rope or chain used to secure tall vertical structures such as masts or poles. |
| 206 | Hydrant | An external point for accessing the contents of a pipe. |
| 189 | Ice front | The vertical cliff forming the seaward face of an ice shelf or other floating glacier, varying in height to 2 to 50 m above sea level. |
| 214 | Ice rise boundary | The boundary of the ice rise. |
| 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. |
| 217 | Iceberg | A massive piece of ice of greatly varying shape, more than 5 m above sea-level, which has broken away from a glacier (or an ice shelf), and which may be afloat or aground. Icebergs may be described as tabular, dome-shaped, sloping, pinnacled, weathered or glacier bergs (an irregularly shaped iceberg). Icebergs are not sea ice. They originate from the ice mass of the Antarctic continent that has accumulated over many thousands of years. When they melt they add fresh water to the ocean. |
| 223 | Island | A land mass, especially one smaller than a continent, entirely surrounded by water. |
| 390 | Landing | Natural or human-made places for discharging or taking on passengers and cargo. |
| 229 | Landing area | Any locality either on land, water or structures, including airports/helipads and intermediate landing fields, which is used, or intended to be used, for the landing and takeoff of aircraft. Landing areas may or may not have facilities for the shelter and servicing of aircraft, or for receiving or discharging passengers or 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. |
| 235 | Management zone | An area set aside for specific management purposes. |
| 242 | Mast | An upright post or lattice-work structure for supporting radio antennas or similar features. Usually supported by guys. (Non directional beacons are stored under beacons) |
| 243 | Monument | An object, especially large and made of stone, built to remember and show respect to a person or group of people, or a special place made for this purpose. |
| 247 | Navigation guide | A structure or object on land or water that does not emit a signal and is used for marine vessel navigation |
| 248 | Offshore rock | Rocks located between the tidal area and the seaward edge of the continental shelf |
| 251 | Pad | A levelled ground surface. |
| 252 | Path | A way or track laid down for walking or made by continual treading |
| 254 | Penguin | Sea-fowl of southern hemisphere with wings developed into scaly flippers with which it swims under the water. |
| 257 | Pipe | A line of pipe connected to valves and other control devices, for conducting fluids, gases, or finely divided solids |
| 260 | Pole | A tall, slender and rounded length of wood or metal, generally vertical, used to give structural support for utility features such as the electrical fittings and cables. May or may not be supported by guys. |
| 262 | Pontoon | A floating structure, usually rectangular in shape which serves as landing, pier head or bridge support. |
| 264 | Post | A stout piece of timber or metal of considerable length placed vertically as support in building. |
| 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. |
| 269 | Quarry | An open or surface working or excavation for the extraction of building stone, ore, coal, gravel, or minerals. |
| 270 | Rack | A framework with rails, bars, pegs, or shelves, for keeping or placing articles on or in. |
| 271 | Radome | A dome or covering, protecting communications equipment eg. a radar installation. |
| 274 | Refuge | A shelter from extreme or dangerous environmental conditions such as those posed by the weather. |
| 278 | Road | A long piece of hard ground that people can drive along from one place to another. |
| 279 | Rock | Any aggregate of minerals that makes up part of the earth's crust. It may be unconsolidated, such as sand, clay, or mud, or consolidated, such as granite, limestone, or coal. |
| 281 | Route | Any established or selected course for passage or travel. |
| 452 | Scientific Site | A location of scientific study site or where a sample was taken. It also includes the location of scientific markers to relocate sites. |
| 310 | Spot height | Altitude of a point on the land surface |
| 311 | Stair | A set of steps |
| 228 | Stair Landing | A platform between two flights of stairs, or at the top or bottom of a flight. |
| 312 | Station | A place where there is permanent human habitation and infrastructure serving as a base for scientific research. |
| 314 | Storage | A temporary structure or collection of goods e.g shipping containers, shipping goods, gravel stockpile. |
| 316 | Structure | Something built or constructed. |
| 318 | Tank | Large metal, wooden, glass etc., vessel for liquid, gas, etc. |
| 325 | Tongue | A projection of the ice edge up to several km in length caused by wind and current. |
| 326 | Tongue boundary | The boundary of the tongue. |
| 329 | Transformer | A device for increasing or decreasing the voltage of electrical current flowing through an electrical cable. |
| 334 | Tunnel | A underground passageway, especially one for trains or cars that passes under a mountain, river or a congested urban area |
| 576 | Vegetation type | A community of plants or plant life that share distinguishable characteristics. |
| 345 | Water body | An enclosed body of water, usually but not necessarily fresh water, from which the sea is excluded. |
| 346 | Watercourse | A natural stream arising in a given drainage basin but not wholly dependent for its flow on surface drainage in its immediate area, flowing in a channel with a well-defined bed between visible banks or through a definite depression in the land, having a definite and permanent or periodic supply of water, and usually, but not necessarily, having a perceptible current in a particular direction and discharging at a fixed point into another body of water. |
| 347 | Way point | A navigation marker. |
| 348 | Wharf | A structure serving as a berthing place for vessels. |