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Antarctic Geoheritage activity

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Junior students can get a taste for what it was like for scientists living in Antarctica with our code breaker earth science week activity (labelled Primary). Crack the code and send messages home using the unique WYSSA code used by Antarctic scientists.
Senior students can get a modern take on science in Antarctic by studying an Antarctic sediment core (labelled Senior Secondary). The set also includes Teacher Notes with instructions and suggested answers.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Antarctic Geoheritage activity
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/ab8c3aaf-848f-44a4-8141-4dc665e8d1e8
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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    [
      [
        -180.0,
        -90.0
      ],
      [
        180.0,
        -90.0
      ],
      [
        180.0,
        -60.0
      ],
      [
        -180.0,
        -60.0
      ],
      [
        -180.0,
        -90.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Antarctic Geoheritage activity". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/antarctic-geoheritage-activity