Heard and McDonald Islands - Bathymetric data created for 1:1 000 000 bathymetric map

Bathymetry around Heard and McDonald Islands and the Kerguelen Plateau.

This layer is stored as two datasets (line and polygon) in the Geographical Information System (GIS).

The line data were interpolated from soundings made on ANARE voyages and soundings provided by the Royal Australian Navy Hydrographic Service.

The line data were polygonised to create the polygon data.

The data were produced for a 1:1 million scale bathymetric map (refer to link).

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Identification info

Alternate title
Heard and McDonald Islands - Bathymetric data created for 1:1 000 000 bathymetric map
Date (Publication)
2001-09-10
Edition
1

Originator

Harris, U.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

HARRIS, URSULA
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Collaborator

HARRIS, URSULA
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/heard_bathy_gis

Status
Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Topic category
  • Elevation
  • Oceans

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Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
1980-01-01 1995-02-01
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY
Keywords
  • BATHYMETRY
  • GIS
  • HEARD ISLAND
  • KERGUELEN PLATEAU
  • MCDONALD ISLAND
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • ECHO SOUNDERS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • SHIPS
  • R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • AMD
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • 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
These data are publicly available for download from the provided URLs.

Resource constraints

File type
Portable Network Graphic
Linkage
Creative Commons by Attribution logo

Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
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=heard_bathy_gis when using these data
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Distributor

Fees
free
Planned available datetime
2001-09-10T00:00:00
Distribution format
  • shapefiles

OnLine resource
GET DATA

Download bathymetric contours

OnLine resource
GET DATA

Download bathymetric areas

OnLine resource
GET DATA

Heard Island 1:1 million scale bathymetric map

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Search the SCAR Feature Catalogue, dataset identifiers and quality information indicators

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Resource lineage

Statement
Bathymetric contours were interpolated from soundings made on ANARE voyages and soundings provided by the Royal Australian Navy Hydrographic Office (Qinfo=414). The soundings were corrected using echo-sounding correction tables based on a speed of sound in water of 1500m/s. Lines were manually created using a heads-up screen digitising technique where bathymetric contours were missing in order to polygonise the contours. (Qinfo=415). The data have been formatted according to the SCAR Feature Catalogue, which includes data quality information (refer to links below). The provided start date in temporal coverage is approximate only, and should not be relied upon. The map derived from these data states that data were collected by Australian Antarctic Division voyages, as well as Royal Australian Navy voyages. Voyage 7.2 - 1989-1990 Voyage 6 - 1991-1992 Voyage 1 - 1993-1994 Other data compiled from data acquired before 1989. Provided by Royal Australian Navy Hydrographic Service. Usually mapped to a Universal Transverse Mercator projection, Zone 43.
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2018-08-13 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/heard_bathy_gis

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

BENDER, ANGELA
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
625b3916-3798-496a-b0d9-65f79363227b

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2015-11-30T07:32:13

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/heard_bathy_gis

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2004-02-25T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2018-08-13

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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