Unverified GPS track of R/V Akademik Tryoshnikov during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) in the austral summer of 2016/2017.

• Main Authors: Pina Estany, Carles, Thomas, Jenny
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition; Antarctica; Southern Ocean; ACE; Trimble; Global Positioning System; GPS; navigation; NMEA; National Marine Electronics Association; Antarc*; Antarctic; Swiss Polar Institute
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3368403

Dataset abstract A Trimble Global Positioning System (GPS) recorded the route undertaken by the R/V Akademik Tryoshnikov during a circumnavigation of the Antarctic as part of the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) in the austral summer of 2016/2017. The data provided in this dataset are raw NMEA strings containing date, time, latitude and longitude, with other NMEA variables allowing the accuracy of the location to be ascertained with one-second resolution. The data have not been quality checked or corrected. Data coverage is from 21st December 2016 until 11th April 2017. Dataset contents gpsdata_YYYYMMDD.log, data file, text data_file_header.txt, metadata, text README.txt, metadata, text Data files include the date (in UTC) on which the data were recorded in the format YYYYMMDD. Dataset license This unverified GPS track dataset is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) whose full text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition was made possible by funding from the Swiss Polar Institute and Ferring Pharmaceuticals.