Antarctic Maps, Maps of Antarctica

Antarctic Continent Travel Map

A detailed topographic travel map of the Antarctic continent showing research bases, explorer routes, information about the ice sheet, wildlife, the Antarctic treaty and record weather extremes. Islands and land points are labeled as well as glaciers, mountains and ice shelves. Surface point elevations are shown in black. Ice thickness point elevations are shown in blue. Side bar maps are also included of the subglacial rock surface and a location map.

Antarctica Map - A New Age

Maps of Antarctica’s interior remained mostly white blanks into the mid-1980’s. Satellites using visible light had produced detailed surface images, but their angles of view excluded more than 1.2 million square miles poleward of about 82 degrees south latitude. Then in 1997 the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) rotated its Radarsat I satellite in orbit, directing its radar sensor toward the South Pole. The first Antarctic Mapping Mission, a joint project of CSA and NASA in the US, imaged the entire continent in just 18 days at a resolution many times finer than any other single satellite survey. Compiling Radarsat’s 4500 scans into the digital mosaic seen here required two years. Dark areas on the map indicate smooth ice and fine-grained surfaces, like new snow, that don’t scatter the radar beam. Coarse surfaces – old granular snow, rough ice and crevasses – break up the beam and appear bright. During its many passes over the continent the satellite scanned the surface in strips, producing the faint starburst effect that patterns the image. In 2000, Radarsat remapped Antarctica’s coast and most of its fast moving glaciers, astonishing researchers with detailed images of recent change. Full continent map showing extensive detail of landforms, mountains, ice shelves, islands, and research stations.

BAS MiniMap 2 - CONTINENT

2002 Edition An excellent travel or quick reference map. The MiniMap covers the entire continent of Antarctica. This map shows all the major features of the continent and surrounding area. Showing international research stations, permanent ice shelves, longitude and latitude lines, as well as major elevations. It even includes side bar information on the continent's history, current science studies, highest elevation, total area and more. The reverse side is printed with information on the Sea Ice thickness and extent around the continent, geographical bed topography, and "Antarctic Facts". Size: 10-1/2" x 8-1/4" (29cm x 21cm) open 6 x 4 inches folded Paper, Full Color. Includes plastic carrying sleeve.

Drake Passage and Peninsula Map

The ship voyage from South America to the Antarctic Peninsula is a travel of a lifetime. After two days navigating on a sea of miles deep with the strongest and wildest currents and winds, the traveler arrives to a paradise for people looking for nature, history and adventure. This map is based in the Argentine Hydrographic Survey and the Ushuaia Maritime Museum charts and includes historic sites in the area as well as place for stamps and signatures from the ship and stations crew. A certificate for having crossed the Drake Passage is printed, too.

USGS Antarctic Continent Wall Map

Scale = 1:5,000,000 Size: 56" x 40" Wall Map 1991 Paper, rolled This spectacular satellite image map of Antarctica shows intricate detail of the continent, its mountains, glaciers, ice sheets and islands. United States as well as other country's research stations are marked and islands and regions labelled. Longitude and lattitude lines are subtly marked in light-grey. Insert maps include a "thermal infared mosaic" showing the colder and warmer regions of the continent in blue and red, a geographical location diagram that shows Antarctica in relation to other continents and an "image coverage diagram" with a breakdown of satellite coverage areas.