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Princess Royal Island


WANG Le1HAN 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.2020.06.12.V1

Published:Sep. 2020

Visitors:2443       Data Files Downloaded:20      
Data Downloaded:16.96 MB      Citations:

Key Words:

Princess Royal Island,Canada,world geography,data encyclopedia

Abstract:

Princess Royal Island is located in the Southwest Canada, the most northeast of the Pacific Ocean. It faces the Hecate Strait in the west, 2.42 km separated from Gribbell Island in the north, and 75 km separated from Swindle Island in the south. The Princess Royal Island is in British Columbia Province of Canada. The geo-location of the Island is between 52°36'2"N and 53°18'28"N, 128°36'2"N and 53°18'28"N. The total area of the Island is 2286.38 km² based on the Albers projection, and the coastline is 659.41 km based on the Lambert projection. The dataset is developed based on the Global Multiple Scale Shorelines Dataset Based on Google Earth images (2015), combined with relevant maps of Canada. The dataset is archived in .kmz and .shp data formats, and consists of 16 data files with data size of 4.43 MB (compressed to two data files with 1.69 MB).

Foundation Item:

Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA19090110)

Data Citation:

WANG Le, HAN Nianlong, LIU Chuang, SHI Ruixiang.Princess Royal Island[J/DB/OL]. Digital Journal of Global Change Data Repository, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2020.06.12.V1.

Data Product:

ID Data Name Data Size Operation
1 PrincessRoyalIsland.kmz 634.29KB
2 PrincessRoyalIslandshp.rar 1102.26KB
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