Data

Antarctic Territorial Claims GIS

Australian Antarctic Division
Harris, U. ; HARRIS, URSULA
Viewed: [[ro.stat.viewed]] Cited: [[ro.stat.cited]] Accessed: [[ro.stat.accessed]]
ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2FANDS&rft_id=http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/gis108&rft.title=Antarctic Territorial Claims GIS&rft.identifier=http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/gis108&rft.publisher=Australian Antarctic Data Centre&rft.description=Antarctic Territorial Claims GIS Dataset. This dataset is based on data displayed on the map 'Antarctica' published in 1979. The map states 'The indication of boundaries on this map and the description of the areas within them are intended to agree with national legislation of the countries concerned but are not to be treated as evidence of the official views of the Government of Australia with respect to the national legislation of other countries.'The dataset represents Antarctic Territorial Claims from the south pole to the Antarctic coastline for each nation.Progress Code: completedStatement: The data has been produced for small scale use only. Definitions of the territories as compiled by R.K.Headland (Scott Polar Research Institute) 20 April 1998 from historical information and presented at an Antarctic Treaty meeting. Bruce Hull (Policy AAD) provided a copy to the Australian Antarctic Data Centre. The dataset consists of three shapefiles for use in a Geographical Information System (GIS). 1. Polygon data representing each claim. The data are stored with a polar stereographic projection. 2. Line data representing each claim. The data is stored with a polar stereographic projection. 3. Line data representing each claim. The data are stored unprojected in latitudes and longitudes. Territorial claim boundary lines of longitude generated at 0.1 degree intervals. Boundaries clipped to the Antarctic coastline using 1:10 million scale data from the Antarctic Digital Database version 5. The northern and southern limit of Norway's claim is undefined.&rft.creator=Harris, U. &rft.creator=HARRIS, URSULA &rft.date=2003&rft.coverage=westlimit=-180; southlimit=-90; eastlimit=180; northlimit=-60&rft.coverage=westlimit=-180; southlimit=-90; eastlimit=180; northlimit=-60&rft_rights=Stored data format: ArcView shapefiles. Available format type: ArcView shapefiles. Stored in a polar stereographic projection These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.&rft_rights=Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode&rft_rights=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=gis108 when using these data.&rft_rights=This metadata record is publicly available.&rft_subject=environment&rft_subject=imageryBaseMapsEarthCover&rft_subject=planningCadastre&rft_subject=EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT > LAND MANAGEMENT&rft_subject=CLAIM&rft_subject=ANTARCTICA&rft_subject=GIS&rft_subject=TERRITORY&rft_subject=SOUTHERN OCEAN&rft_subject=NOT APPLICABLE&rft_subject=MAPS&rft_subject=AMD/AU&rft_subject=CEOS&rft_subject=AMD&rft_subject=OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN&rft_subject=CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA&rft_subject=GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR&rft.type=dataset&rft.language=English Access the data
Cite Saved to MyRDA Save to MyRDA

Licence & Rights:

Open Licence view details
CC-BY

Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Stored data format: ArcView shapefiles. Available format type: ArcView shapefiles. Stored in a polar stereographic projection

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

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=gis108 when using these data.

This metadata record is publicly available.

Access:

Other

Full description

Antarctic Territorial Claims GIS Dataset. This dataset is based on data displayed on the map 'Antarctica' published in 1979. The map states 'The indication of boundaries on this map and the description of the areas within them are intended to agree with national legislation of the countries concerned but are not to be treated as evidence of the official views of the Government of Australia with respect to the national legislation of other countries.'

The dataset represents Antarctic Territorial Claims from the south pole to the Antarctic coastline for each nation.

Lineage

Progress Code: completed
Statement: The data has been produced for small scale use only. Definitions of the territories as compiled by R.K.Headland (Scott Polar Research Institute) 20 April 1998 from historical information and presented at an Antarctic Treaty meeting. Bruce Hull (Policy AAD) provided a copy to the Australian Antarctic Data Centre. The dataset consists of three shapefiles for use in a Geographical Information System (GIS). 1. Polygon data representing each claim. The data are stored with a polar stereographic projection. 2. Line data representing each claim. The data is stored with a polar stereographic projection. 3. Line data representing each claim. The data are stored unprojected in latitudes and longitudes. Territorial claim boundary lines of longitude generated at 0.1 degree intervals. Boundaries clipped to the Antarctic coastline using 1:10 million scale data from the Antarctic Digital Database version 5. The northern and southern limit of Norway's claim is undefined.

Data time period: 2003-07-30 to 2009-06-12

This dataset is part of a larger collection

Click to explore relationships graph
Help

Related Organisations

180,-60 180,-86 0,-86 -180,-86 -180,-60 0,-60 180,-60

0,-75

text: westlimit=-180; southlimit=-90; eastlimit=180; northlimit=-60

Subjects
AMD | AMD/AU | ANTARCTICA | CEOS | CLAIM | CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA | EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT > LAND MANAGEMENT | GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR | GIS | MAPS | NOT APPLICABLE | OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN | SOUTHERN OCEAN | TERRITORY | environment | imageryBaseMapsEarthCover | planningCadastre |

User Contributed Tags    

Login to tag this record with meaningful keywords to make it easier to discover

Other Information
Download three shapefiles representing claims. (GET DATA)

uri : https://data.aad.gov.au/eds/2179/download

1:10 000 000 map of Antarctica, Edition 6 (GET RELATED VISUALIZATION > MAP)

uri : http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/display_map.cfm?map_id=151

Search the SCAR Feature Catalogue, dataset identifiers and quality information indicators (VIEW RELATED INFORMATION)

uri : http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/ftc/index.cfm

Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset (VIEW RELATED INFORMATION)

uri : http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=gis108

1:20 000 000 map of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, Edition 8 (VIEW RELATED INFORMATION)

uri : http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/display_map.cfm?map_id=13115

Identifiers
  • global : gis108