Macquarie Island Vegetation and Drainage Structure Data Set

• Other Authors: Australian Antarctic Division (isOwnedBy)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: data.gov.au
• Subjects: AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; AMD; AMD-AU; CEOS; EARTH SCIENCE - BIOSPHERE - VEGETATION - VEGETATION COVER; EARTH SCIENCE - TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE - SURFACE WATER - LAKES; EARTH SCIENCE - TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE - SURFACE WATER - RIVERS-STREAMS; FIELD SURVEYS; GEOGRAPHIC REGION - POLAR; OCEAN - SOUTHERN OCEAN; OCEAN - SOUTHERN OCEAN - MACQUARIE ISLAND; SATELLITES; SPOT-3 - Systeme Probatoire Pour l-Observation de la Terre-3; map; vegetation; Island C; New Zealand; Pacific; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/macquarie-island-vegetation-data-set/1434792; http://data.gov.au/dataset/ec9b0656-b8f9-4866-ab26-59c99e125399

The data for this map were collected as part of two ASAC projects - 488 and 956, of which Patricia Selkirk was the chief investigator. Macquarie Island (54 degrees S 159 degrees E) is a subantarctic island (c. 35km by 3 to 5km) approximately equidistant between Tasmania, New Zealand and Antarctica i...