Geology of the northern Jetty Peninsula, Mac.Robertson Land, Antarctica, GIS Dataset

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

The Geology of the Northern Jetty Peninsula GIS dataset contains the shapefiles and tables of the basement geology of the Northern Jetty Peninsula in East Antarctica. This dataset is derived from the map product ‘Geology of Northern Jetty Peninsula, Mac.Robertson Land, Antarctica'. Northern Jetty Peninsula, incorporating Else Platform (~140 km2) and Kamenistaja Platform (~15 km2), represents a mostly ice-free low-lying region located on the western flanks of the Lambert Graben. The region is underlain by granulite-facies Proterozoic gneisses and unmetamorphosed Permian sediments.

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Title Geology of the northern Jetty Peninsula, Mac.Robertson Land, Antarctica, GIS Dataset
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/0d9f2cfc-fffb-4a68-8535-843a9c030ebf
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 26/07/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        62.8282,
        -72.698
      ],
      [
        71.9704,
        -72.698
      ],
      [
        71.9704,
        -69.8085
      ],
      [
        62.8282,
        -69.8085
      ],
      [
        62.8282,
        -72.698
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Geology of the northern Jetty Peninsula, Mac.Robertson Land, Antarctica, GIS Dataset". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/geology-of-the-northern-jetty-peninsula-mac-robertson-land-antarctica-gis-dataset