World Lakes, 1:10 million (2012)
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This polygon shapefile depicts natural and artificial lakes worldwide ranked by relative importance, coordinating with river ranking. Includes name attributes. Data was derived from the United States Central Intelligence Agency's World Data Bank 2 with numerous reservoir additions from other sources, primarily imagery. The diminishing areal extent of the Aral Sea and Lake Chad derives from more recent satellite imagery These data are represented at 1:10,000,000 scale. This layer is part of the Natural Earth Collection (v.2.0.0).
- Purpose
- Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10, 1:50 and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.
Description
Type of resource | cartographic, software, multimedia |
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Form | Shapefile |
Extent | 2.193 |
Publisher | North American Cartographic Information Society |
Date valid | 2012 |
Publication date | 2012 |
Edition | 2.0.0 |
Language | English |
Digital origin | born digital |
Map data | Scale not given. ; W 165°57ʹ56ʺ--E 176°5ʹ38ʺ/N 81°57ʹ19ʺ--S 50°40ʹ11ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326 |
Creators/Contributors
Creator | Patterson, Tom | |
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Creator | Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn |
Subjects
Subject | Bodies of water |
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Subject | Lakes |
Subject | Earth (Planet) |
Subject | 2012 |
Subject | Inland Waters |
Genre | Geospatial data |
Genre | Cartographic dataset |
Bibliographic information
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.
- Copyright
- This work is in the Public Domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- Kelso, N.V. and Patterson, T. (2012). World Lakes, 1:10 million (2012). Made with Natural Earth, online at http://www.naturalearthdata.com.
Collection
Natural earth
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