Welcome

Welcome to SOPAC Data 99. The data presented here is meant to be used with MapInfo? software and optionally Surfer?.

SOPAC for its own purpose and for its Member countries creates and maintains a set of MapInfo? Layers associated with the Geology of the South Pacific.

In each directory you will find an HTML file describing the content of this directory.

Location

The data included here has been compiled for the following area.

Image

The Exclusive Economic Zones of SOPAC Member Countries are shown in green.

Contents

In this Directory, you will find a REF directory. This is the SOPAC Map Reference directory that we are using at work to create most of our maps. In this directory you will find the following directories:

• Bathy?: Bathymetric data
• Coasts?: Coastlines
• Cruises?: Shiptracks of research cruises
• EEZ?: Exclusive Economic Zones boundaries
• Geol?: Geology features
• Geoid?: Geoid model from NIMA
• Gravity: Gravity data in a raster format
• Hazards: Hazard Data Worldwide
• MapBasic: An addon to MapInfo? to print Maps
• Names: Names of locations
• Nodules: Poly-Metallic? Nodules
• SOPACMAPS: Research Cruise
• Spot?: Spot image availability
• Topo: Topographic data of the land and seabed in a raster format.

Origin

We have spent considerable time converting most of the digital maps into MapInfo? format. We acknowledge the source of these maps as accurately as we can. However, if you consider that the information is incorrect, please contact us.

Contact

Please direct all enquiries to:
The Director
SOPAC Secretariat
Private Mail Bag
Suva
FIJI