Abraham's Bay, West Indies (Raster Image)

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Abstract
This layer is a georeferenced raster nautical chart titled "Abraham's Bay," from "West Indies, the Bahamas, plans in southeastern Bahamas." The map is part of originally published by the Defense Mapping Agency in 1995. This layer is 1 of 4 parts representing the original source sheet map. Map no. 26263.
Purpose
Historic paper maps can provide an excellent view of the changes that have occurred in the cultural and physical landscape. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography, and urban and rural land use change. As this map has been georeferenced, it can be used in a GIS as a source or background layer in conjunction with other GIS data.

Description

Type of resource cartographic, software, multimedia
Form GeoTIFF
Publisher Land Info (Firm)
Publication date 1995
Edition 3rd ed.
Language English
Digital origin born digital
Map data Scale not given. ; Custom projection W 73°4ʹ13ʺ--W 72°57ʹ39ʺ/N 22°22ʹ30ʺ--N 22°18ʹ30ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326

Creators/Contributors

Creator United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
Creator Land Info (Firm)

Subjects

Subject Navigation
Subject Abraham's Bay (Bahamas : Bay)
Subject Caribbean Sea
Subject 1995
Subject Imagery and Base Maps
Genre Geospatial data
Genre Cartographic dataset

Bibliographic information

WGS84 Cartographics This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/zn192gc7681

Access conditions

Use and reproduction
Land Info grants customer unlimited license for internal academic use of data and license to distribute data on an isolated non-commercial basis, or as Derived Works.
Copyright
Copyright LAND INFO Worldwide Mapping, LLC

Preferred citation

Preferred citation
Defense Mapping Agency. (1995). Abraham's Bay, West Indies (Raster Image). LandInfo. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/zn192gc7681

Collection

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Nautical Charts

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