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AIMS Voyage Tracker Dataset

Australian Institute of Marine Science
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
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Use Limitation: All AIMS data, products and services are provided "as is" and AIMS does not warrant their fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. While AIMS has made every reasonable effort to ensure high quality of the data, products and services, to the extent permitted by law the data, products and services are provided without any warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of title, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. AIMS make no representation or warranty that the data, products and services are accurate, complete, reliable or current. To the extent permitted by law, AIMS exclude all liability to any person arising directly or indirectly from the use of the data, products and services.

Attribution: Format for citation of metadata sourced from Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in a list of reference is as follows: "Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). (2008). AIMS Voyage Tracker Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25845/jxdr-7288, accessed[date-of-access]".

Resource Usage:Map products not to be used for navigationUse of the AIMS data is for not-for-profit applications only. All other users shall seek permission for use by contacting AIMS. Acknowledgements as prescribed must be clearly set out in the user's formal communications or publications.

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This dataset contains real time geographic co-ordinates of the AIMS research fleet.


Information for current and previous voyages of the two AIMS research vessels:



RV Solandar

RV Cape Ferguson



This interactive online tool provides access to the voyage information for the AIMS research vessels for the past 30 days. Vessel positions are updated every 20 minutes. Dates are provided in UTC locale.


Oceanographic conditions from our real time marine weather stations are also available as well as cyclone forecast tracks for any current cyclones issued by the Bureau of Meteorology.

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Maintenance and Update Frequency: continual
Statement: Statement: Positional accuracy is dependent on the accuracy of the vessel's GPS. Data is polled every 10 minutes. This does not ensure that that the data is delivered every 10 minutes as there are periods where a connection can not be made to the modem to retrieve the data from the vessel. This record was updated on 18-11-2021 to contain links to the new visualisation tool.

Modified: 22 08 2025

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text: westlimit=112.0; southlimit=-44.0; eastlimit=154.0; northlimit=0.0

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Latest vessel tracks RV Solander

uri : https://apps.aims.gov.au/voyage-tracker/vessel/2

Latest vessel tracks RV Cape Ferguson

uri : https://apps.aims.gov.au/voyage-tracker/vessel/1

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