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Graham Island


HU Ke1HAN Nianlong1LIU Chuang2SHI Ruixiang2
1 School of Politics & Public Administration,Hainan University,Haikou 570228,China2 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101,China

DOI:10.3974/geodb.2020.05.04.V1

Published:Aug. 2020

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Key Words:

Graham Island,Canada,data encyclopedia

Abstract:

Graham Island is located in northwestern part of North America, northeast edge of the Pacific Ocean. It is the biggest island in the Queen Charlotte Islands of Canada. It is 56.36 km separated from Alexandria Islands by Dickson Strait in its north, and 64.13 km from Poche Island by the Hecate Strait in its east. Its geo-location is between 54°11'27″N and 53°08'05″N, 133°09'20″W and 131°38'43″W.Graham Island belongs to British Columbia, Canada. It has a total area of 655.48 km² based on the Albers projection and a coastline of 1,280.21 km based on Lambert projection.The main cities on the island are Queen Charlotte and Masset. There is an airport in the northeast of Masset. This dataset is developed based on the Global multiple scale shorelines dataset based on Google Earth Images (2015), combined with relevant Canadian maps. The dataset is archived in .kmz and .shp data formats,consists of 25 data files with data size of 3.33MB (compressed to 3 files, 2.29MB)

Foundation Item:

Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA19090110)

Data Citation:

HU Ke, HAN Nianlong, LIU Chuang, SHI Ruixiang.Graham Island[J/DB/OL]. Digital Journal of Global Change Data Repository, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2020.05.04.V1.

Data Product:

ID Data Name Data Size Operation
1 AirportCitiesGraham.kmz 1.89KB
2 GrahamIsland.kmz 865.18KB
3 GrahamIslandshp.rar 1479.57KB
Co-Sponsors

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Geographical Society of China

Parteners

Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in/for/with Developing Countries (PASTD)

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

Digital Linchao GeoMuseum