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Terre Adelie and George V margin bathymetry |
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This dataset provides the new high-resolution bathymetry model for the Terre Adelie and George V continental margin, East Antarctica, called GVdem (short for George V digital elevation model). The 100 metre-resolution gridded bathymetry dataset covers an area of about 302,000 km2, which also includes the land and ice sheet elevation coverage. This page provides the data in a range of formats for public download.
Copyright Notice
NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION.
If using the data for publications, please quote the following reference:
- Beaman, R.J., O'Brien, P.E., Post, A.L., and De Santis, L., 2011, A new high-resolution bathymetry model for the Terre Adélie and George V continental margin, East Antarctica: Antarctic Science 23(1), 95-103. Available at: http://www.deepreef.org/publications/peer-review/82-gvdem.html (internal link here)
Australian Antarctic Magazine article 'Shedding Light on the Sea Floor' Issue 18 2010:
Google Earth
Widescreen images
GeoTIFF images
Grid data (V3.0, 11 May 2011)
Line data
Metadata
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SheddingLight_AntarcticMagazine2010.pdf 
Bathymetry hillshade link [Google Earth kmz] 
