GIS Data representing the buildings at the old Casey station

Work commenced on the original Casey station in 1964 and it was fully operational by February 1969. Casey was a novel concept in Antarctic stations at the time with living and sleeping quarters, and some work buildings, in a straight line and connected on the windward side by an aerodynamic corrugat...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: SMITH, DAVID T. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), SMITH, DAVID T. (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Subjects:
planningCadastre
BUILDINGS
EARTH SCIENCE
HUMAN DIMENSIONS
INFRASTRUCTURE
Casey
GIS
station
tunnel
building
SURVEYING TOOLS
FIELD SURVEYS
CONTINENT &gt
ANTARCTICA &gt
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
Antarctic
Casey Station
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/gis-representing-buildings-casey-station/701436
https://doi.org/10.26179/5c98624acb17b
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/oldcasey_buildings_gis
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
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Summary:Work commenced on the original Casey station in 1964 and it was fully operational by February 1969. Casey was a novel concept in Antarctic stations at the time with living and sleeping quarters, and some work buildings, in a straight line and connected on the windward side by an aerodynamic corrugated iron tunnel. All were elevated on scaffolding pipe to allow the flow-through of the violent winds common in the region. The tunnel station was decommissioned, demolished and all parts returned to Australia by 1993. The final data in this dataset is a polygon shapefile representing the buildings at the original (now called 'old') Casey station. Included also are: (i) other files used to create the final shapefile; and (ii) a Readme file with explanation about the procedure used.

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