Website: http://quantarctica.npolar.no/
Article: 
http://www.npolar.no/en/news/2018/02-06-relansering-av-Quantarctica.html

Hello QGIS Community,

The Norwegian Polar Institute is proud to announce the release of Quantarctica 
3, the latest version of its free, cross-platform Antarctic mapping environment 
that combines QGIS and high-quality Antarctic scientific data.

Quantarctica 3 is the result of a two-year dedicated development effort. Thanks 
to the work of the Quantarctica Project Team, Editorial Board, and feedback 
from hundreds of Antarctic researchers around the world, this version is 
Quantarctica's biggest release yet, adding:

-Eight new themes with over 50 new datasets in over 100 new layers: Atmospheric 
Science, Biology, Environmental Management, Geology, Ice Cores, Oceanography, 
Sea Ice, and Social Science
-New additions and updates to the pre-existing Geophysics and Glaciology 
categories
-The Quantarctica Data Catalog (http://quantarctica.npolar.no/data-catalog), 
where you can view preview images, metadata, and citation information for every 
dataset
-Northward expansion of Quantarctica's project boundary to 40°S, including 
subantarctic islands
-Improved and expanded basemap, terrain, and satellite imagery layers
-Updates, resolution improvements, and stability enhancements to datasets from 
v1 and v2
-New features in QGIS and significant enhancements to project stability, speed, 
and usability

The QGIS and OSGeo communities have done a tremendous amount of work over the 
years that both directly and indirectly benefited Quantarctica - and by 
extension, hundreds of researchers on Earth's most remote, poorly mapped, and 
just plain weirdest continent. It's not only the active developments to QGIS 
that have helped us - every time you submitted a bug report, answered a 
question on StackExchange, or posted a tweet showing off a new feature, it's 
let us know that we're not alone, and there's a vibrant community out there 
that's building an open-source future for the world.

We are convinced that Quantarctica could only exist, and be as popular as it is 
today, because of you.

Visit http://quantarctica.npolar.no/ to download the latest version. And please 
consider sharing the news and your own Quantarctica-made creations on social 
media- #quantarctica, #qgis/@qgis , and @norskpolar are good things to tag!

And as always, if you have any questions, comments, bug reports, or cool maps, 
send us an email at [email protected].

On behalf of the Quantarctica Project Team and the thousands of Antarcticans 
around the world,

Happy Mapping!
George Roth
Anders Skoglund
Kenichi Matsuoka
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