Airfields of the Commonwealth: Catalogue of Sites

This dataset was created as part of Daniel J. Leahy's 2018 Bachelor of Arts with Honours project investigating the archaeology of airfields utilised by schools of the Empire Air Training Scheme during the Second World War. Sites include those in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) and South Africa. Similar sites utilised by the British Flying Training Schools in the United States have also been included. Each site is recorded by its latitude, longitude, and UTM coordinates in the standard of the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS-84). A raw text (CSV) file has been included as well as a PDF document of how this data was formatted to appear as Appendix A in Leahy's 2018 Honours thesis.本数据集由丹尼尔·J·利希（Daniel J. Leahy）于2018年完成的荣誉文学学士项目创制，该项目针对第二次世界大战期间帝国空军训练计划（Empire Air Training Scheme）下属院校所使用机场的考古学议题展开研究。数据集覆盖澳大利亚、加拿大、新西兰、津巴布韦（原南罗得西亚）及南非境内的相关机场遗址；同时纳入美国境内英国飞行训练学校所使用的同类遗址。所有遗址均以1984世界大地测量系统（World Geodetic System 1984, WGS-84）为标准，通过纬度、经度与通用横轴墨卡托（UTM）坐标完成记录。本数据集附带原始文本（CSV）文件，同时包含一份PDF文档，用以说明该数据的格式规范——该格式曾作为利希2018年荣誉学位论文的附录A予以呈现。