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Twenty-three 1:1 million topographic maps covering the Australian Antarctic Territory were published by the Division of National Mapping. Four of these maps were updated in 1987. Three additional maps were published for the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) by the Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (AUSLIG) in 1989. Two of these were updated by the AAD between 1998 and 1999.In 2023, twenty-two updated 1:1 million topographic maps were produced by the AAD, covering from 36°E to 160°E in East Antarctica. Attached is a list of all maps and their map catalogue numbers. High-resolution files from the SCAR Map Catalogue are available from the download links below. The A4 legend for the series is included in every SCAR Map Catalogue entry for the map series.
The maps are available in the SCAR Map Catalogue:
• SQ 37-38: Map Catalogue No. 16202 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16202
• SQ 39-40: Map Catalogue No. 16203 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16203
• SQ 41-42: Map Catalogue No. 16204 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16204
• SQ 43-44: Map Catalogue No. 16205 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16205
• SQ 45-46: Map Catalogue No. 16206 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16206
• SQ 47-48: Map Catalogue No. 16207 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16207
• SQ 49-50: Map Catalogue No. 16208 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16208
• SQ 51-52: Map Catalogue No. 16209 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16209
• SQ 53-54: Map Catalogue No. 16210 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16210
• SQ 55-56: Map Catalogue No. 16211 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16211
• SR 37-38: Map Catalogue No. 16212 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16212
• SR 39-40: Map Catalogue No. 16213 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16213
• SR 41-42: Map Catalogue No. 16214 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16214
• SR 43-44: Map Catalogue No. 16215 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16215
• SR 49-50: Map Catalogue No. 16216 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16216
• SR 55-56: Map Catalogue No. 16217 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16217
• SR 57-58: Map Catalogue No. 16218 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16218
• SS 40-42: Map Catalogue No. 16219 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16219
• SS 43-45: Map Catalogue No. 16220 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16220
• SS 55-57: Map Catalogue No. 16221 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16221
• ST 54-57: Map Catalogue No. 16222 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16222
• SU 53-57: Map Catalogue No. 16223 – https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/16223
To view data sources and imagery used in the creation of this map series, see metadata record: https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/East_Antarctic_25K_topographic_data_2023
Note: Data delivered from the services linked to this metadata record may link to data more current than described in this record. Please contact [email protected] if you specifically want a copy of the data used for this mapping series.
Other sources include:
- Symbology – font is Open Sans. Natural features = italics, human-made features = non-italics (this includes coast or land name, Island names), hydrology features = blue italic text.
- Bathymetry (metres) was derived from the GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) 2021 Grid: GEBCO Compilation Group (2021) GEBCO 2021 Grid (doi:10.5285/c6612cbe-50b3-0cff-e053-6c86abc09f8f)
- Hillshade and contours were derived from The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica version 2 (REMA 2): Howat, Ian, et al., 2022, “The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica – Mosaics, Version 2”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EBW8UC Harvard Dataverse, V1, 2022. DEM(s) courtesy of the Polar Geospatial Center.
- Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA): Bindschadler, R., Vornberger, P., Fleming, A., Fox, A., Mullins, J., Binnie, D., Paulson, S., Granneman, B., and Gorodetzky, D., 2008, The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, pp. 4214-4226. The LIMA mosaic is used with a 50% transparency over the Rema2 hillshade. This layer adds some depth, definition and colour and disguises some artifacts in Rema2 data. Note: Sentinel 2 Imagery were unavailable for a small portion of the final map in the series, SU 53-57. Rock data for this portion of map were sourced from the Antarctic Digital Database: https://scar.org/library-data/maps/add-digital-database
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PurposeTo update the 1:1 million topographic map series of the Australian Antarctic Territory.
Data time period: 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-01
text: westlimit=-180; southlimit=-90; eastlimit=180; northlimit=-50
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https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/East_Antarctic_25K_topographic_data_2023
SQ 37-38: Map Catalogue No. 15566 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15566
SQ 39-40: Map Catalogue No. 15567 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15567
SQ 41-42: Map Catalogue No. 15568 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15568
SQ 43-44: Map Catalogue No. 15569 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15569
SQ 45-46: Map Catalogue No. 15570 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15570
SQ 47-48: Map Catalogue No. 15571 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15571
SQ 49-50: Map Catalogue No. 15572 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15572
SQ 51-52: Map Catalogue No. 15573 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15573
SQ 53-54: Map Catalogue No. 15574 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15574
SQ 55-56: Map Catalogue No. 15575 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15575
SR 37-38: Map Catalogue No. 15576 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15576
SR 39-40: Map Catalogue No. 15577 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15577
SR 41-42: Map Catalogue No. 15578 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15578
SR 43-44: Map Catalogue No. 15579 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15579
SR 49-50: Map Catalogue No. 15580 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15580
SR 55-56: Map Catalogue No. 15581 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15581
SR 57-58: Map Catalogue No. 15582 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15582
SS 40-42: Map Catalogue No. 15583 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15583
SS 43-45: Map Catalogue No. 15584 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15584
SS 55-57: Map Catalogue No. 15585 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15585
ST 54-57: Map Catalogue No. 15586 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15586
SU 53-57: Map Catalogue No. 15587 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)
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https://data.aad.gov.au/map-catalogue/map/15587
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https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=1million_map_topo_series_2023
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