A new bathymetric compilation for the South Orkney Islands region, Antarctic Peninsula (49°–39°W to 64°–59°S): Insights into the glacial development of the continental shelf

• Published in: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
• Main Authors: Dickens, William A., Graham, Alastair G. C., Smith, James A., Dowdeswell, Julian A., Larter, Robert D., Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Trathan, Phil N., Arndt, Jan Erik, Kuhn, Gerhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Ice cap; South Orkney Islands
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/36076/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43977

We present a new, high resolution (300 m) bathymetric grid of the continental shelf surrounding the South Orkney Islands, northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The new grid, derived from a compilation of marine echo-sounding data, improves previous regional bathymetric representations and helps to v...