Brief description
Photographs and photo locations of the historic Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) base at Atlas Cove on Heard Island. The station was established 11 December 1947 and was closed down on 9 March 1955. Photos were taken in March of 2008 by Kerry Steinberner during a visit to Heard Island. The map used to locate the images is described in the following metadata record: Topographic Survey at Atlas Cove, Heard Island, November 2000 [atlas_survey2000_gis] The images include shots of the remains of ANARE buildings, vehicles, tanks, debris, fences, artefacts and flora. The dataset includes a copy of the images, an excel spreadsheet cataloguing the images, and shapefiles showing the image locations.Issued: 2009-06-10
Data time period: 2008-03-26 to 2008-03-26
text: northlimit=-53.018; southlimit=-53.02; westlimit=73.391; eastLimit=73.394; projection=WGS84
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