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coastlineMaritimes: Coastline data set, showing Maritime provinces of Canada

Description

A sample coastline dataset, showing Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and part of New Brunswick. This is the oce author's stomping ground, and so he feels compelled to apologize for the error at the Strait of Canso.

Usage

data(coastlineMaritimes)

Arguments

source

The data were extracted from the the 1:2,000,000 ``World Data Bank II'' dataset at the NOAA site, with a few ``fake'' points added to create a closed geometry that can be drawn as a filled polygon.

References

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg_coastline/index.jsp?llat=43.0&ulat=47.2&llon=-66.8&rlon=-59.5

See Also

The documentation for coastline-class explains the structure of coastline objects, and also outlines the other functions dealing with them.