GIS Data representing the buildings at the old Casey station

• 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 > ANTARCTICA > GEOGRAPHIC REGION > 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

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.