Political and Other Geographical Outline Data
Click the name of a political entity1,2 in the list below to receive a list of space-delimited latitude/longitude coordinates describing the outline of the entity. North latitudes are positive and south latitudes are negative. East longitudes are positive and west longitudes are negative. If there are multiple outlines for an entity (e.g. - a chain of islands), each outline (set of coordinates) will be separated by a line containing 15 dashes (---------------).
- Africa
- Central Africa
- Eastern Africa
- Northern Africa
- Southern Africa
- Western Africa
- Antarctica
- Asia
- Australia/new Zealand
- Europe
- Eastern Europe
- Northern Europe
- Southern Europe
- Western Europe
- North America
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- South America
- Arctic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- North Atlantic Ocean
- South Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Central Pacific Ocean
- Eastern Pacific Ocean
- North Pacific Ocean
- South Pacific Ocean
- Western Pacific Ocean
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1 The names of the political entities are provided by NASA's Global Change Master Directory: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Meaux, C.Solomon, R. Bilodeau, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, 2007. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 6.0.0.0.0
2 The coordinates of the political entries are provided by the NCAR Command Language (NCL, http://www.ncl.ucar.edu).
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