First, a word about these maps...they were first presented by the United States at the ATCM XXVIII--the 28th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Stockholm in June 2005--along with a first draft of the management plan for this Anatarctic Specially Managed Area (ASMA). The management plan was revised in response to comments, and it was resubmitted at ATCM XXX in New Delhi in April/May 2007, where it was approved. The plans and maps are available on the Antarctic Treaty system (ATS) web site under the designated meeting (but from that link you must navigate to the various meetings, reports, and documents, since the site uses javascript and does not remember links). Anyway, along with the maps I've captured the 2007 management plan (which includes smaller versions of the maps) along with the responses to comments presented at ATCM XXX prior to approval of the measure. Also here is the first year management report presented at ATCM XXXI in Kiev in 2008.

The management plan basically outlines the NGO access restrictions in various areas...restrictions on uses of chemicals and melting of snow...access to Old Pole...and similar procedural guidelines. Anyway, here are the maps:

First, a small-scale overview, about a 175 km radius around the station.

Here's the full size JPG copy (500 kb) and the original PDF (561 kb).


Zoom in a bit to a 20 km radius:

(full size JPG (950 kb) and (original PDF (515 kb).


Now move in closer to a 5 km radius...

(full size JPG (1.17 mb) and (original PDF (910 kb).


And the close-in site plan:

(full size JPG (915 kb) and (original PDF (680 kb).