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| Code | Feature Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 145 | Claim | An area claimed by a country as an external territory of that country. |
| 147 | Cliff boundary | The boundary of the cliff. |
| 153 | Control point | A location where the geographic coordinates have been measured. |
| 154 | Convention | An area subject to an international convention; will generally be the CCAMLR (Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources). |
| 184 | Flying Bird | Feathered vertebrate with two wings and two feet. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 245 | Moraine | A mound, ridge, or other distinct accumulation of unsorted, unstratified glacial drift, predominantly till, deposited primarily by direct action of glacier ice, in a variety of topographic landforms that are independent of control by the surface on which the drift lies. |
| 597 | Ocean structure | To include such features as fronts and currents. Attribute data defines these. |
| 254 | Penguin | Sea-fowl of southern hemisphere with wings developed into scaly flippers with which it swims under the water. |
| 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. |
| 309 | Sounding | A sub-marine point locality whose depth is measured and known. |
| 310 | Spot height | Altitude of a point on the land surface |
| 312 | Station | A place where there is permanent human habitation and infrastructure serving as a base for scientific research. |