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gis310

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Citation
Bender, A. and Smith, D. (2013) Areas of exposed rock and blue ice in the Australian Antarctic Territory digitised from satellite images, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/gis310, Accessed: 2026-06-03
Title
Areas of exposed rock and blue ice in the Australian Antarctic Territory digitised from satellite images
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
Created Date
2013-03-18
Revision Date
2025-08-03
Parent record
None

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    Description

    The Australian Antarctic Data Centre digitises topographic features from satellite images as required for various applications. These features include areas of exposed rock and areas of blue ice.
    As at August 2014 digitising had been done for the following areas:
    exposed rock - southern Prince Charles Mountains, the south-eastern part of the Amery Ice Shelf, Grove Mountains and the coastline between the Amery Ice Shelf and the Polar Times Glacier;
    blue ice - Prince Charles Mountains

    The digitised exposed rock and blue ice data is available for download as shapefiles. Also available in this format are the mapping extents for the digitising. See the Related URLs below.

    The data conform to the SCAR Feature Catalogue which includes data quality information. Data quality information for each feature is included within the dataset.

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    Quality

    Data quality information for each feature in the shapefile can be accessed by entering the Qinfo number for the feature, given in the attribute table, in the 'Search Datasets and Quality' tab at the 'SCAR Feature Catalogue' web page (see provided URL).

    The dates provided in temporal coverage are approximate only.

    Access

    These data are publicly available for download from the provided URLs.

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -70.05
    Southernmost:
    -72.52

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    63.72
    Easternmost:
    68.35

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -72.52
    Southernmost:
    -74.5

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    60.17
    Easternmost:
    68.12

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -70.22
    Southernmost:
    -73.17

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    67.88
    Easternmost:
    75.92

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -69.72
    Southernmost:
    -69.77

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    73.68
    Easternmost:
    74.55

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

    • blue ice
    • exposed rock

    Locations

    • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

    Platforms

    • SATELLITES

    Instruments

    • Computer

    Researchers

    • bender, angela (TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)
    • smith, david (TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)

    Use Constraints

    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=gis310 when using these data.

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