TemperateReefBase Geonetwork Catalogue
Archaeological Investigation of Sealing Sites at Heard Island
A report and images taken as part of ASAC (AAS) project 380 - Archaeological Investigation of Sealing Sites at Heard Island.
Taken from the report:
From November 1986 to January 1987 the authors participated in the ANARE expedition to Heard Island. Our objectives were:
1) To undertake a survey of historic archaeological sites of Heard Island and to compile an inventory of sites.
2) At the request of the Antarctic Division to salvage certain sealing-era artefacts identified in the 1985/86 ANARE report as being at risk.
3) At the request of the Antarctic Division, to record the site of the historic ANARE station at Atlas Cove, to assess the significance of surviving site features and make recommendations for the conservation of significant elements.
4) To provide a report to the Australian Heritage Commission documenting the location, description and assessment of the various sealing and other historic places located during the 1986-87 expedition.
Sealing sites on Heard Island can be categorised into five types based on structural and functional differences. These five types are:
a) stone platforms
b) hut footings or ruins
c) occupied caves
d) barrels
e) grave
All types of sites are found on the various beaches around the island, except that stone platforms appear to be confined to the southern beaches, and only one grave is known.
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
- Archaeological Investigation of Sealing Sites at Heard Island
- Date (Publication)
- 2012-03-12
- Edition
- 1
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Collaborator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Oceans
- Society
Extent
))
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 1986-11-15 1987-01-21
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > INFRASTRUCTURE > CULTURAL FEATURES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES
- Keywords
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- Sealing
- Archaeology
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- FIELD SURVEYS
- FIELD INVESTIGATION
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- AMD
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- A pdf copy of the report is available for download from the provided URL. The images are too large to be downloaded, so please contact the AADC for access.
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- Title
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Website
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license
- Use constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS380 when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- Free
- Planned available datetime
- 2012-03-12T00:00:00
Distributor
- Fees
- Free
- Planned available datetime
- 2012-03-12T00:00:00
- Units of distribution
- MB
- Transfer size
- 15
- Distribution format
-
- Units of distribution
- GB
- Transfer size
- 4.3
- Distribution format
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- jpeg
- OnLine resource
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GET DATA
Request point for the images
- OnLine resource
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PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for ASAC project 380
- OnLine resource
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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION > GENERAL DOCUMENTATION
Download point for the report
- OnLine resource
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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
Resource lineage
- Statement
- See the report for further information.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2012-03-13 - record created by Dave Connell from information provided by Ursula Ryan. 2014-09-15 - record updated by Dave Connell.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/AAS380
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 2c9b76a6-0258-4fc8-9339-5b96d393a1c3
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2015-11-29T18:07:00
Identifier
- Description
- metadata.extraction_date
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 8.6
- Metadata linkage
-
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS380
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2012-03-12T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2017-04-26
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
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Spatial extent
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