Swan Islands（Honduras）
JIANG Zhaocai1LIU Chuang1SHI Ruixiang1CHEN Lijun2
1 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research，Chinese Academy of Sciences，Beijing 100101，China2 National Geomatics Center of China，Beijing 100830，China
DOI:10.3974/geodb.2025.12.10.V1
Published:Dec. 2025
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Key Words：
Swan Islands,Caribbean,Sea,Honduras
Abstract：
The Swan Islands, an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea in northern Honduras, is about 180 km off the coast of Honduras. The geographical location is between 17°24′1″N and 17°25′4″N, 83°53′24″W and 83°56′44″W. The entire archipelago consists of 16 islands and cays, including Great Swan Island, Little Swan Island, and Booby Cay. The total land area of the archipelago is about 3.65 km² and the total circumference is 19.08 km. In the archipelago, the Great Swan Island has the largest area, about 2.57 km², followed by Little Swan Island, about 1.06 km². The dataset is archived in .kmz and .shp data formats, and consists of 17 data files with data size of 684 KB (Compressed into 2 files with 269 KB).
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Data Citation：
JIANG Zhaocai, LIU Chuang, SHI Ruixiang, CHEN Lijun. Swan Islands（Honduras）[J/DB/OL]. Digital Journal of Global Change Data Repository, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2025.12.10.V1.
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SwanIslands.kmz |
96.12KB |
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SwanIslands.rar |
173.37KB |
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