Visitor MapSouth Shetland Islands & Northern Antarctic Peninsula |
Visitor Map of South Shetland Islands & Northern Antarctic Peninsula. Published by Tom Patterson / shadedrelief.com.
I was fortunate this year to have visited the Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands. It was an amazing trip. But the electronic maps provided by the ship that I was on were inadequate, lacking coast detail and important place names. As a retired US National Park Service cartographer, I decided to improve matters by making a map similar to those that visitors get when entering a national park. Designing an accurate, informative, and easy-on-the-eyes map for ship passengers was my goal. I also wanted the map colors to reflect the Antarctic environment—icy waters brimming with life, glaciers everywhere, and rocky shores where penguins gather. The reference map that I made focuses on the frequently visited part of the Antarctic Peninsula north of the Antarctic Circle. It is available for free. You may use it for online viewing, as wall art, or to track your location on a mobile device while cruising the Antarctic coast. Enjoy! Tom Patterson January 13, 2024 Data sources Coastline, rock outcrop, and ice shelf - Antarctic Digital Database, British Antarctic Survey. www.bas.ac.uk/project/add/ Terrestrial relief - Gapless-REMA100: A gapless 100-m Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica with voids filled by multi-source DEMs. figshare.com/articles/dataset/Gapless-REMA100/19122212 Bathymetry - General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO). www.gebco.net Tourist landing sites - Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty. www.ats.aq/devAS/Ats/VisitorSiteGuidelines?lang=e Place names - multiple sources • Antarctica Place-Names Committee. https://apc.antarctica.ac.uk • US Board on Geographic Names. www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names • Open Street Map and Wikipedia 1986 Larsen Ice Shelf extent - NASA Earth Observatory. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/89588/antarcticas-changing-larsen-ice-shelf Deception Island photograph - Baron Reznik, Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/baronreznik/25205493679
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