Visitor MapExploring Greenland's Southern Tip |
Vistor Map for Exploring Greenland's Southern Tip. Published by Tom Patterson / shadedrelief.com.
As a retired US National Park Service cartographer and admirer of dramatic landscapes, I am always on the lookout for new places to map. The islands, fjords, and glaciers of southern Greenland captivated me during a brief visit there in 2022. I was also seeking a test project on which to use ArcticDEM elevation data rendered with Eduard relief shading software. Another incentive was the varied land cover that allowed me to add a splash of green to the map. The climate of the interior fjords of southwestern Greenland is just warm enough to support small farms and a few pockets of low forest. The ruins of medieval Norse settlements dot the region. I hope that you will find this map informative and useful. Tom Patterson January 2, 2024 Data sources Coastline and Streams - Open Street Map. download.geofabrik.de Shaded Relief - ArcticDEM, Polar Geospatial Center. pgc.umn.edu/data/arcticdem/ Lakes and Land Cover - European Space Agency. esa-worldcover.org/en Place names - multiple sources • US Board on Geographic Names. www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names • Open Street Map. download.geofabrik.de • Wikipedia and various online sources 2021 Town Populations - Wikipedia Glaciers - National Snow and Ice Data Center. nsidc.org/home Globe - Natural Earth II. naturalearthdata.com
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