Northwestern Islands
SHI Ruixiang1LIU Chuang1
1 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research，Chinese Academy of Sciences，Beijing 100101，China
DOI:10.3974/geodb.2022.12.03.V1
Published:Dec. 2022
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Key Words：
Northwestern Islands,the Arctic Ocean,Svalbard Archipelago,Norway,data encyclopedia
Abstract：
The Northwestern Islands is located in the northwestern of Svalbard Archipelago, between Greenland Sea and Barents Sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is in Norway, and the geo-location is between 79°46′25″N and 79°53′09″N, 11°15′28″E and 11°38′59″E. The Northwestern Islands consists of 34 islands (area of the smallest is 380 m²). Among them, the five largest islands are Fuglesongen Island, Fugl Island, Klovningen Island, Indre Norsk Island, and Ytre Norsk Island. The total area of the Northwestern Islands is 12.67 km², and the length of the coastline is 47.84 km. The dataset was developed based on Google Earth images around 2015. The dataset is archived in .kmz and .shp data formats, and consists of 17 data files with data size of 304 KB (Compressed into 2 files with 205 KB).
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Data Citation：
SHI Ruixiang, LIU Chuang.Northwestern Islands[J/DB/OL]. Digital Journal of Global Change Data Repository, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2022.12.03.V1.
References：
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Data Product:
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Data Name |
Data Size |
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| 1 |
NorthwesternIslands.kmz |
75.89KB |
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| 2 |
NorthwesternIslandsshp.rar |
129.13KB |
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