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Satellitenbildkarte /Satellite Image Map 1:2 000 000 Dronning Maud Land, Draft Version 4.2

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Topographic Satellite Image Map Dronning Maud Land (Landsat MSS and NOAA AVHRR); Satellite imagery mosaic compiled from Landsat-2, -4 and -5 data and from NOAA AVHRR digital mosaic of National Remote Centre, Farnborough (UK, 1988) where Landsat data was not available; Coast line, Ice front and Grounding line taken from SCAR Antarctic Digital Database, Version 1.0 (1993); Digital Elevation Model (DEM) from ERS-1 waveform data; Positions of automatic weather stations provided by Van de Wal, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Esearch, Utrecht (NL); Positions of EPICA survey sites 1995-1998 provided by Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Bremerhaven (DE), British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge (UK), Norsk Polarinstitutt, Oslo (NO), Stockholm University (SE); ; Inset maps: Location diagram, List of English equivalents of German, Norwegian and Russian generic terms; Geographical names on the map are used in their original language according to guidelines relating to historical priority; 
Scale: 1:2000000;
Projection: Polar Stereographic; 
Bounding Box: POLYGON ((-19 -69, 21 -69, 39 -78, 0 -80.5, -36 -78.5, -19 -69));
Datum: OSU-91A geoid

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  • Published in cooperation with British, Dutch, German, Norwegian, and Swedish research organisations in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Antarctic Treaty; NOAA AVHRR digital mosaic of National Remote Centre, Farnborough (UK, 1988); SCAR Antarctic Digital Database, Verion 1.0 (1993); Bamber, J. L. & Huybrechts (1996): Geometric boundary conditions for modelling the velocity field of the Antarctic ice sheet, Annals of Glaciology 23, 363-373; Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica, UK Antarctic Placenames Committee, US Board on Geographic Names, List of Norwegian place-names of Dronning Maud Land (1992), Index of German-language Antarctic place-names (1988 and 1993), Index of Russian geographical names of the Antarctic, (1987)