HOs' PUBLICATIONS ON ANTARCTIC WATERS


Last update: février 10, 2010
At the 3rd meeting of the Hydrographic Committee on Antarctica (HCA/3, Monaco, September 2003) , it was agreed that HCA Members would provide the IHB with a list of their publications on Antarctic waters, with a brief résumé of their contents. To date, information has been provided by the following HCA Members:

Notes: COMNAP Antarctic-related publications are at http://www.comnap.aq/publications/ 
            SCAR Map Catalogue is at http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/  


1.    ARGENTINA

Sailing Directions 
H-205: Derrotero Argentino Parte V. “Antártida y Archipiélagos Subantárticos Argentinos y Suplemento”. 

List of Lights 
H – 213: Faros y Señales Marítimas. Parte III “Tierra del Fuego, canales e islas adyacentes, Islas Malvinas y Antártida Argentina y Suplemento”. 

Tide Tables 
H – 610: Tablas de Marea. “Costa Argentina, incluyendo Antártida Argentina y principales puertos de Brasil, Uruguay y Chile”. 

Miscellaneous 
H – 920: “Nomenclador Antártico Argentino”

Antarctic Navigation Course Manual (28 Mb), 2008, in Spanish 

2.    AUSTRALIA

Australian Seafarers Handbook 
AHO published the Australian Seafarers Handbook in December 2004. The handbook is available in the current edition corrected for notice to mariners. For details of the publication see: http://www.hydro.gov.au/prodserv/ash.htm. It contains information in respect of the Antarctic region, as follows:

Chapter 1 (National Description)
Australian Territories : 1 page brief on the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT).
Time Zones : list the time zones observed by the permanent Australian Antarctic stations.

Chapter 2 (Maritime Organisations)
A small brief on the roles, responsibilities and contact details of the Australian Antarctic division (AAD).

Chapter 3 (Seas, Oceans and Seabeds)
Covers sea names, sea surface temperatures, currents for the region, including to the Antarctic coastline from 175° E to 60° E.

Chapter 4 (Climate)
Covers the region as above for climate, with specific sections on Sea Ice Limits for the Antarctic, Sea Ice Movements, Icebergs and Sea Ice Information Services.

Chapter 5 (Maritime Boundaries)
While it does not discuss Antarctica specifically, the diagram summarising Australia’s EEZ claim includes the EEZ off the AAT.

Chapter 6 (Marine Environmental Protection)
Includes a 4 page brief provided by AAD covering navigation near Antarctica, Environmental Impact Assessment of activities, Pollution, Quarantine, Landing Ashore and the Australian Antarctic Stations.

Chapter 9 (Maritime Safety)
Search and Rescue (SAR), charting, and vessel operations in Antarctic waters.

The AAT south of 60° S is also covered (but not specifically) in topics such as Navarea X and high Seas Meteorological Broadcasts as it lies within these areas of Australian responsibility.

Australian Maritime Gazetteer 
The AHO maintains the Australian Maritime Gazetteer as a web product. The gazetteer is a listing of all names shown on Australian navigational chart products. The resulting search provides the lat and long of the place, its feature code and the Australian navigational charts on which the place is depicted. For details see: http://www.hydro.gov.au/tools/mga/mga.htm

Australian National Tide Tables (ANTT) and Seafarer Tides
The ANTT and Seafarer Tides provide data on eight sites within the Antarctica region. Four are in the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) - Casey, Davis, Mawson and Commonwealth Bay; and two on off-lying islands - Heard Island and Macquarie Island. The other two stations listed in the ANTT are Ross Island (New Zealand) and Port Martin (France). All are listed as secondary ports in the ANTT. Casey, Davis, Mawson and Macquarie Island are treated as Standard ports in Seafarer Tides to ensure consistency with information provided to the Antarctica research community. For details see: http://www.hydro.gov.au/prodserv/antt.htm or http://www.hydro.gov.au/seafarer/tides/tides.htm.

Australian Chart and Publication Maintenance Handbook
The AHO is currently compiling this NP to describe the process for the upkeep of Australian digital and paper navigational products. It is due for publication in 2009.

Australia Pilot Volume II (NP 14)
Under the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office / Australian Hydrographic Office Sailing Directions Cooperation Project, revision of the UKHO Admiralty Sailing Directions - Australia Pilot Volume II (NP14) was published by the UKHO under dual UKHO and AHO badging in November 2007. Australia Pilot Volume I (NP 13) was published under the same arrangement in September 2008.


3.    CHILE

Sailing Directions
SHOA 3006 - Derrotero de la Costa de Chile Vol. VI. Territorio Chileno Antártico
SHOA 3035 - Instrucciones Generales de Pilotaje en las Aguas del Territorio Chileno Antártico (General Instructions for Pilotage in the Water Ways of the Chilean Antarctic Territory)

Atlases
SHOA 3040 - Atlas Antártico
SHOA 3042-A - Atlas Hidrográfico Chileno Antártico

Geographical Names
SHOA 3052 - Diccionario de Nombres Geográficos de la Costa de Chile. Territorio Chileno Antártico


4.    FRANCE 

Nautical charts: 
20 charts, 12 of them being INT charts (2 published by SHOM and 10 reproduced), only two being referred to WGS84 datum (INT 9016 and 9017).

Mariner’s handbook 
Book no.1 « Guide du navigateur » 
Provides information on navigation (in general and for example in the ice or near the icebergs), about the services, the regulations (COLREG, SOLAS, …), various aspects of navigation risks (including for example freezing of the super structures) …

Sailing directions 
Volume L9 “Instruction nautique : Iles de l’Océan Indien (partie Sud) – Terre Adélie”, Update n°3, 2007 . 
This SD contains in the chapter 1, one hundred pages of general information concerning the geography, meteorology, oceanography, ices, navigation and routes in the Indian Ocean and Antarctic waters (in fact rather few information concerning Antarctic),  and in the chapter 9 eight pages concerning  “Terre Adélie”.

Tide tables, 2009 and 2010
The tide table for the overseas harbours contains the tide predictions for “Base Dumont Durville”.

Book no. 95 “Maritime Meteorology” 
Presents the different aspects of maritime meteorology (general principles, meteorological information for mariners, meteorological observations from a ship, meteorological codes …) and many aspects related to the ices and icebergs are described.

Book no. 96.2 “Radiometeorological stations – volume 2” 
Provides the list and characteristics of the stations in Antarctica (all outside Terre Adélie).

Book no. 92.3, 2008 “Maritime radio communications – volume 3”
Provides the list and characteristics of the radio communication coastal stations in Antarctica (all outside Terre Adélie).

List of Lights
Volume L, "Océan Indien - Australie", 2007 Update

5.   SOUTH AFRICA

Sailing Directions
SAN HO – 23, Vol III, Chapter 10, Antarctic Region
The scope of this chapter encompasses that part of NAVAREA VII south of 60º S and the Antarctic Coast between 20ºW and 80ºE. It consists of seven sections that provide information on the regulations / Antarctic Treaty, aircraft operations, general scientific and environmental information, natural conditions, sea ice, navigation in ice and a section on Bouvet Island (Bouvetøya). Publication SANHO-23 is maintained through the promulgation of monthly NM’s and generally fully revised between 2 to 3 year intervals.


6.   UNITED KINGDOM

Sailing Directions
NP09 – Antarctic Pilot, 7th Edition, 2009.
 Contains general information on charts and publications (coverage, usage and maintenance) operational information, maritime regulations, tides, currents, characteristics of the sea, basic meteorology, navigation in ice, hazards and restrictions to navigation.

NP136 - Ocean Passages of the World
Contains a wealth of information on ocean voyage planning. Individual chapters on each of the World’s oceans that contain advice on winds, weather, climate, seasonal factors, currents, swell and ice hazards as well as showing the shortest routes between ports and important positions.

Admiralty List of Radio Signals
Provides a comprehensive source of information on all aspects of Maritime Radio communications.

NP281 – Coast Radio Stations
Contains details of maritime public correspondence stations, global maritime communications services, ship reporting systems, piracy and armed robbery reporting procedures and list of shore-based MMSI numbers.

NP282 – Radio Aids to Navigation, Electronic Position Fixing Systems, Satellite Navigation Systems, Legal Time and Radio Time Signals.
Contains a listing of all radar beacons, international standard and daylight saving times and dates, details of international time signal broadcast and electronic position fixing.

NP283 – Maritime Safety Information Services
Contains details of maritime weather services, maritime safety information broadcasts, details of submarine and gunnery warnings and radio facsimile stations.

NP284 – Meteorological Observation Stations
Contains a listing of all meteorological observation stations worldwide.

NP285 – Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)
Contains worldwide communication requirements for distress, search and rescue.

NP286 – Pilot Services, Vessel Traffic Services and Port Operations
Contains detailed pilotage information, information on global Vessel Traffic Services, reporting points, pilot boarding positions, ports and harbour communications.

Admiralty List of Navigational Lights & Fog Signals
Provides a world-wide tabulation of all lighthouses and lights of navigational significance. Also includes lightships, lit floating marks over 8m in height and fog signals. Contains a listing of foreign language light descriptions and calculation tables for geographical and luminous range of lights.

NP77 – Eastern Atlantic Ocean
NP80 – Western Side of South Atlantic Ocean and East Pacific Ocean

Admiralty Tide Tables
Contains daily predictions of times and heights of high and low waters for over 230 major ports, tidal prediction data for more than 6000 secondary ports world-wide, an explanation of the Simple Harmonic Method of tidal prediction and values for harmonic constants for over 5000 stations world-wide.

NP202 – Europe, Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean
NP203 – Indian Ocean and South China Sea
NP204 – Pacific Ocean

DP550 - TotalTide
The world’s most comprehensive tidal prediction system. It provides instant tidal height and stream predictions for the world’s commercial shipping routes. Tidal heights for the world’s standard and secondary ports are displayed clearly and concisely both in graphical and tabular form. Tidal stream rates for more than 3000 positions world-wide are presented on a chart based diagram. Enables the user to select and simultaneously calculate tidal heights for multiple ports for up to 7 consecutive days. Results include periods of daylight and nautical twilight, moon phases and springs and neaps indicator. Under keel and overhead clearance can be calculated and displayed as a simple (yet comprehensive) graphic to ensure safe passage and port entry.