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Pelagie Islands


SHI Ruixiang1LIU Chuang1
1 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101,China

DOI:10.3974/geodb.2021.03.06.V1

Published:Mar. 2021

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Key Words:

Pelagie Islands,Europe,Mediterranean,Italy

Abstract:

Pelagie Islands are located in the most southern of Italy, between North Africa and Sicily Island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is in the Sicilian Region of Italy. The geo-location of the Pelagie Islands is between 35°29′35″N and 35°52′33″N, 12°19′13″E and 12°53′02″E. The Pelagie Islands are composed of Lampedusa Island, Linosa Island, Lampione Island and some small islands. In the Pelagie Islands, the Lampedusa Island is the largest island with an area of 20.72 km². The total area of the Pelagie Islands is 26.23 km² based on Albers projection, and the total coastline is 61.56 km long based on Lambert projection. The dataset is archived in .kmz and .shp data formats, and consists of 17 data files with data size of 642 KB (compressed to 2 data files with 414 KB).

Foundation Item:

Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA19090110)

Data Citation:

SHI Ruixiang, LIU Chuang. Pelagie Islands[J/DB/OL]. Digital Journal of Global Change Data Repository, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2021.03.06.V1.

References:

[1] Editorial Group of the Chinese-foreign Language Handbook of Global Geographical Names. Chinese-foreign Language Handbook of Global Geographical Names [M]. Beijing: SinoMaps Press. 1999.
     [2] SinoMaps Press. Italy Atlas [M]. Beijing: SinoMaps Press. 2008.
     [3] Liu, C., Shi, R. X., Zhang, Y. H., et al. Global multiple scale shorelines dataset based on Google Earth images (2015) [J/DB/OL]. Global Change Data Repository, 2019. DOI: 10.3974/geodb.2019.04.13.V1.
     [4] Liu, C., Shi, R. X., Zhang, Y. H., et al. 2015: How many islands (isles, rocks), how large land areas, and how long of shorelines in the world? —Vector data based on Google Earth images [J]. Journal of Global Change Data & Discovery, 2019, 3(2): 124-148. DOI: 10.3974/geodp.2019.02.03.
     

Data Product:

ID Data Name Data Size Operation
1 PelagieIslands.kmz 154.92KB
2 PelagieIslandsshp.rar 260.00KB
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