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Subject: Re: [Fwd: RE: [Fwd: Topographic mapping of the Antarctic
Peninsula?]]
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:25:20 +0000
From: "R.B.Parry" <[log in to unmask]>
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Take a look at the British Antarctic Survey's map catalogue at
www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/public/magic/newmapcat/mapcat.html

The official UK distributor for BAS mapping is Edward Stanford Ltd
www.stanfords.co.uk

Bob Parry

"Johnnie D. Sutherland" wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [Fwd: Topographic mapping of the Antarctic Peninsula?]
> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:26:31 -0000
> From: [log in to unmask]
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> Ilene Raynes:
>
> There is an international co-ordinating organization, whose website may
> help
> point the way: the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, based at
> the
> Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge (England - not
> MA!).
> Take a look at [http://www.scar.org/].  SCAR acts, i.a., as a 'clearing
> house' for those nations producing maps and charts of Antarctica.
>
> Additionally, the British Antarctic Survey (also in Cambridge) has
> produced
> an updated and downloadable version of its original 1993 CD-ROM: the
> 'Antarctic Digital Database' (version 3.0) contains "vector topographic
> data
> for Antarctica".
>
> Sincerely
> Francis Herbert (Curator of paper Maps (with a few CD-ROMs), RGS-IBG)
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> http://www.rgs.org [see 'Collections'/'Unlocking the Archives
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnnie D. Sutherland [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 26 February 2003 21:04
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> Subject: [Fwd: Topographic mapping of the Antarctic Peninsula?]
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Topographic mapping of the Antarctic Peninsula?
> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:16:12 -0700
> From: "Ilene Raynes" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hi-
>
> I have a patron who is looking for topographic mapping of the Antarctic
> Peninsula, specifically near Anvers Island or Gerlache Strait. He says
> he's looked on the USGS site w/no luck. We also have an index here from
> 1987 of "United States Topographic and Other Map Coverage of Antarctica"
> which basically shows no mapping done of that area at all. Granted, this
> index is 16 years old. Does anyone know of more current mapping? I've
> asked the patron to look at http://usarc.usgs.gov/ to see if the mapping
> or air photos or satellite images on this site would be of use to him.
> Any other ideas?
>
> Ilene
>
> Ilene Raynes
> Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences and Map Library
> University of Colorado - Boulder
> Campus Box 184
> Boulder, CO 80309
> (303) 492-4487
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