A new bathymetric compilation for the South Orkney Islands, 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, Gerard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Orkney Islands; South Orkney Plateau; Antarc*; Ice cap
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/506995/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/506995/1/ggge20484.pdf

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...