Our Footprint on Antarctica - Buildings, disturbance

The data set includes point locations for Automated Weather Stations (AWS), lighthouses, flight routes, maintained traverse routes, camp and hut sites, historic sites and monuments, and sites of current and former stations where mapping was not possible. The following provides descriptions of the attributes within the GIS layers: 'STATION' refers to the name of the Research Station or Base 'NAME' refers to a named building within a station (e.g. 'Brookes Hut' which is part of 'DAVIS' within the 'STATION' attributes. 'Ice_free' refers to if a building is located on ice or in an ice-free environment '0' = a building on ice. '1' = on an ice-free environment. 'STATUS' refers to the use of the buildings: 1 = Closed site 2 = Lighthouse or camp 3 = Field hut or refuge 4 = Summer/seasonal only 5 = Year round operation.

These data were the output of: Brooks, S. T., Jabour, J., van den Hoff, J. and Bergstrom, D. M. Our footprint on Antarctica competes with nature for rare ice-free land. Nature Sustainability, doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0237-y (2019). This dataset was last updated on the 30 October 2019 with six additional footprint locations added.