Barff Peninsula Local Travel Map
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Produced by the Mapping and Geographic Information Centre, British Antarctic Survey, 2025, version 1, https://data.bas.ac.uk/maps/2028.
Map of Barff Peninsula, South Georgia. Includes contours, spot heights, land cover information and locations of paths, field huts and GPS waypoints. Projection: South Georgia Lambert Conformal Conic, central meridian 36° 18' 36" W
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Bounding Coordinates
- South-West Corner (min x/y)
- South: -54.384167, West: -36.411111
- North-East Corner (max x/y)
- North: -54.233889, East: -36.1864167
Temporal Range
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- -
Lineage Statement
Map produced in ArcGIS Pro v2.9. Data sources:
- Operations data : sourced from BAS Operations, 2022
- Land Cover: Rock and vegetation derived from Landsat ETM photography (2003) and is approximate. Ice and moraines taken from South Georgia GIS, accessed November 2022.
- Coastline has been adjusted to 2021 imagery.
- Lakes and rivers: taken from South Georgia GIS, accessed November 2022.
- Hillshade and Contours: generated from the 2m Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA v2)produced by the Polar Geospatial Center (Howat, Ian, et al., 022, ""The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica - Mosaics, Version 2"", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EBWBUC, Harvard Dataverse, V1, Accessed 31 /10/22).
- Place names: selected from the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) gazetteer, accessed December 2022
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A collection of maps produced for BAS Operations activities by the Mapping and Geographic Information Centre, British Antarctic Survey.
Item Information
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- 3fb64275-362d-464a-8abd-23bccdec1632
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- PRODUCT (MAP)
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- BAS Local Travel Maps
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- 1:50,000
- Page Size
- 297 x 420 mm (width x height)
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- Item is complete and recommended for general use
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- Item may be updated if needed
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- ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
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- ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
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