Product catalogue
Arafura Marine Park Bathymetry Flythrough
This flythrough highlights seabed environments within two areas of Arafura Marine Park offshore northern Australia; Money Shoal and Pillar Bank. Located 250 km to the northeast of Darwin within the Arafura Sea, the marine park extends to the limit of Australia’s exclusive economic zone, covering an area of 22,924 km2. Money Shoal is an isolated carbonate reef platform on the continental shelf that rises from 70 m to shallow subtidal depths and supports a diverse coral and demersal fish community. The surrounding seabed comprises muddy substrate characterized by extensive fields of pockmark, interpreted as evidence for fluid escape from organic-rich sediment. Pillar Bank, in contrast, is representative of the deeper (150 – 200 m depths) outer shelf area of the marine park that supports sparse benthic communities of filter feeders on local outcrops of hard substrate, surrounded by expanses of muddy substrate. Demersal fish are also present, as observed using baited underwater cameras. Bathymetry data and seafloor imagery for this flythrough was collected in November 2020 by Geoscience Australia (GA) and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) on board RV Solander during survey SOL7491/GA0366. Funding was provided by the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub, with co-investment by GA and AIMS. For further information see: Picard, K. et al. 2020. Arafura Marine Park Post Survey Report. www.nespmarine.edu.au
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-03-19
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-09-12T02:47:35
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/145243
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Digital Obejct Identifier
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Custodian Nichol, S.
PSCD Internal Contact Editor Warouw, D.
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Communications
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- Completed
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Resource provider Place and Communities Division
External Contact Point of contact Nichol, S.
Place and Communities Internal Contact
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- Geoscientific information
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- 2020-11-02 2020-11-15
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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Product data repository: Various Formats
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FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
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Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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Marine Geoscience
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EARTH SCIENCES
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Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
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Australian marine park
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bathymetry
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seabed
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biodiversity
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benthic
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tropical reef
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Epifauna
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demersal fish
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
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CC-BY
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4.0
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2021
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
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- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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- English
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Distribution Information
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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Link to flythrough via Marine Biodiversity Hub
Link to flythrough via Marine Biodiversity Hub
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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Bathymetry data and seafloor imagery for this flythrough was collected in November 2020 by Geoscience Australia (GA) and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) on board RV Solander during survey SOL7491/GA0366. Funding was provided by the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub, with co-investment by GA and AIMS
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Australian Government Security Classification System
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- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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- Unclassified
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urn:uuid/74cc7963-6698-4cfe-b051-099624a8994d
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GeoNetwork UUID
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- UTF8
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Owner Nichol, S.
Place and Communities Internal Contact Point of contact Nichol, S.
Place and Communities Internal Contact
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Multimedia
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
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- Citation identifier
- eCatId/145243
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-03-11T01:40:11
- Date info (Revision)
- 2021-03-11T01:40:11
Metadata standard
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-3
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551