Name: An update to the Antarctic Specially Protected Areas (ASPAs) March 2016
Published: 2016-05-02
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: EARTH SCIENCE,LAND SURFACE,LANDSCAPE,LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY,EARTH SCIENCE,HUMAN DIMENSIONS,ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT,GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR,CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA

All scientific data collected by the Australian Antarctic program (AAp) are eventually described in the Catalogue of Australian Antarctic and Subantarctic Metadata (CAASM). CAASM can be used to search through AAp data descriptions, and it also provides links to access publicly available datasets, which can either be immediately downloaded or obtained from the Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC).

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Citation: Terauds, A. (2016) An update to the Antarctic Specially Protected Areas (ASPAs) March 2016, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.4225/15/572995579CD36, Accessed: 2026-05-30
Title: An update to the Antarctic Specially Protected Areas (ASPAs) March 2016
Data Centre: Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI: doi:10.4225/15/572995579CD36
Created Date: 2016-05-01
Revision Date: 2017-04-26
Parent record: ASAC_3095_Antarctic_Biogeography_shapefiles

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Description

Two shapefiles are contained in this update on the location and extent of Antarctic Specially Protected Areas (ASPAs). The first is a point file (centroids of ASPA locations) and the second i sa polygon file showing the spatial extent and boundary of each ASPA. This update builds on the point and polygon files originally provided by Environmental Research and Assessment (2011). The update includes the removal of ASPAs that have been de-designated and new ASPAs that have been designated since 2011. New ASPA boundaries were created from coordinates provided in the management plans.

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Spatial Coverages

Latitude

Northernmost:
Southernmost:

Longitude

Westernmost:
Easternmost:

Science Keywords

Additional Keywords

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Locations

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA

Platforms

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Instruments

None

Researchers

terauds, aleks (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)

Use Constraints

These data are publicly available for use with the following citation:

Terauds, A. and Lee, J.R. (2016) Antarctic biogeography revisited: Updating the Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic Regions. Diversity and Distributions.

This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS_4296_Antarctic_Specially_Protected_Areas_v2 when using these data.