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5.3.2.1 Polar Stereographic Map

In our first example we will let the projection center be at the north pole. This means we have a polar stereographic projection and the map boundaries will coincide with lines of constant longitude and latitude. An example is given by

    #!/bin/sh
    #    $Id: GMT_stereographic_polar.sh,v 1.1 2001/03/21 04:10:21 pwessel Exp $
    #

    gmtset DEGREE_FORMAT 1
    pscoast -R-30/30/60/72 -Js0/90/4.5i/60 -Ba10g5/5g5 -Dl -A250 -G0 -P > GMT_stereographic_polar.ps

Figure 5.12: Polar stereographic conformal projection.