Brief description
Flythrough movie showing the bathymetry of Carnarvon shelf, highlighting benthic habitats at Point Cloates. The bathymetric image is derived from multibeam sonar collected in 2008 using a 300 kHz Simrad EM3002 system on RV Solander. Key features on the shelf include a prominent ridge at 60 m water depth and a complex area of smaller ridges and mounds across the inner shelf. The ridges and mounds provide hard substrate for diverse coral and sponge communities. The Carnarvon shelf is a study site for the Marine Biodiversity Research Hub, funded through the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (CERF) programme. Survey work was carried out as a collaboration between Geoscience Australia and the Australian Institute of Marine Science. Further information is provided in GA Record 2009/02.Lineage
Maintenance and Update Frequency: unknownIssued: 2010
text: westlimit=113.46; southlimit=-22.9; eastlimit=113.8; northlimit=-22.5
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- URI : pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/70277
- global : a05f7892-f6e7-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6