Map archive

The map collection of the Norwegian Polar Institute (Tromsø, Norway) consists of several thousand maps, mainly from the polar regions. In November 2015 the map archive was extended with about 400 maps from the [Ministry of Foreign Affairs](https://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/ud) The institute aims at...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ørvoll, Oddveig Øien, Helgeland, Conrad
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2015
Subjects:
BOUNDARIES
GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
IMAGERYBASEMAPSEARTHCOVER
LOCATION
maps
topography
EARTH SCIENCE
LAND SURFACE
TOPOGRAPHY
Arctic
Svalbard
Dronning Maud Land
Norway
Tromsø
Jan Mayen
Antarc*
Antarctica
North Atlantic
Norwegian Polar Institute
Online Access:http://data.npolar.no/dataset/cf9a9474-986b-4b9a-875e-8f82f9bfccb3
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Summary:The map collection of the Norwegian Polar Institute (Tromsø, Norway) consists of several thousand maps, mainly from the polar regions. In November 2015 the map archive was extended with about 400 maps from the [Ministry of Foreign Affairs](https://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/ud) The institute aims at conserving all of the maps as high quality (400 dpi) image scans. This scanning is still in progress and new maps are added frequently. You may find linguistic errors in texts following the maps. These will be corrected gradually. These maps carries valuable historical information, but are not to be used for navigation.

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