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Satellitenbidkarte/Satellite Image Map 1:250 000 Glaziologische Strukturen/Glaciological Features Herzog-Ernst-Bucht ST 21-24/8 und ST 25-28/5, Antarktis

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Glaciologic map, Satellite image map Herzog-Ernst-Bucht; Interpretation of Landsat-5 imagery; This map and the adjoining map "Glaciological Features Satellite Image Map 1:250 000 Filchnerschelfeis ST 21-24/12 and ST 25-28/9" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10704947)  both show the state of Filchnerschelfeis on 1 March 1986 when the ice shelf was still both-sided connected with the mainland coast in the east (Touchdown Hills, Coats Land) and in the west (Berkner Island), three months before the break-off of two giant  tabular icebergs happened (one of them numbered 23A which was grounded in the Weddell Sea until December 2023). Since June 1986 the southern border of the giant rift Grand Chasms was then the current ice front of Filchnerschelfeis; Inset maps: Location diagram, Indexes to adjoining sheets 1:250 000 and 1:1 000 000, Listing of recorded Landsat-5 MSS imagery; Sources of English and German place-names: see map legend; 
Scale: 1:250000;
Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic; 
Bounding Box: POLYGON ((-40 -78, -34 -78, -34 -79, -40 -79, -40 -78));
Datum: WGS72

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References

  • Map projection parameters have been used according to the recommendations of SCAR WG on Geodesy and Geographic Information; Illustrated Glossary of Snow and Ice, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, 2nd Ed. (1973) and Proposed New Terms and Definitions for Snow and Ice Features, Polar Record 18, No. 116, (1977)