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Koch Island


LIU Chuang1SHI Ruixiang1MA Junhua1
1 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101,China

DOI:10.3974/geodb.2018.01.22.V1

Published:Feb. 2018

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Key Words:

Koch Island,Canada,Arctic Archipelago,data encyclopedia

Abstract:

Koch Island is located between Baffin Island and Rowley Island, northwest of Bray Island. It is part of the Canada Arctic Archipelago and belongs to Nunavut Region, Canada. Its geo-location is between 69°27′33″N and 69°45′36″N, 78°51′30″W and 77°56′32″W. The dataset consists of Koch Island and two small adjacent Islands or rocks. The total area is 465.72 km², in which the area of the Coach Island is 464.79 km². The total coastline is 139.90 km long, in which the Coach Island is 131.73 km long. The dataset is developed based on the Google Earth images and the referenced maps. The dataset is consisted of 15 data files, archived in both .kmz and .shp data formats with the data size of 267 KB (compressed to 114 KB in two files).

Foundation Item:

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (11852701YZ)

Data Citation:

LIU Chuang, SHI Ruixiang, MA Junhua. Koch Island[J/DB/OL]. Digital Journal of Global Change Data Repository, 2018. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2018.01.22.V1.

Data Product:

ID Data Name Data Size Operation
1 KochIsland.kmz 42.52KB
2 KochIslandshp.rar 72.22KB
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