Surveys on Macquarie Island for the Australian Antarctic Division, September to November 1997

• Other Authors: Australian Antarctic Division (isOwnedBy)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: data.gov.au
• Subjects: AMD; AMD-AU; CEOS; EARTH SCIENCE - HUMAN DIMENSIONS - BOUNDARIES - BOUNDARY SURVEYS; FIELD SURVEYS; GEOGRAPHIC REGION - POLAR; GIS; GPS; MACQUARIE ISLAND; OCEAN - SOUTHERN OCEAN; OCEAN - SOUTHERN OCEAN - MACQUARIE ISLAND; SURVEY; TRACK; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Coleman; Davidson; Garry; Urquhart; Antarc*; Australian Antarctic Division; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/surveys-macquarie-island-november-1997/1434805; http://data.gov.au/dataset/415564bb-0e2f-426f-8d43-767028f851a3

Natasha Adams, surveyor, carried out surveys on Macquarie Island for the Australian Antarctic Division between September and November 1997.\r\n\r\nA number of science programs required survey assistance on Macquarie Island. \r\n\r\nFour major tasks were to be performed during the period of 13 September to 24 November 1997. These, in order of priority were\r\n\r\n1 ASAC Project 2277: Track monitoring and assessment - location of tracks and monitoring of vegetation type and degradation in conjunction with Judith Urquhart\r\n\r\n2 ASAC Project 1015: Location of botanical transects on four mountains for Craig Tweedie\r\n\r\n3 Location of points of interest for Clive Crossley\r\n\r\n4 Second order levelling between the Garden Cove Tide Gauges and the AFN site AUS211 \r\n\r\nThree other tasks were also undertaken in spare time whilst on the island\r\n\r\n1 Location of Geological sites for Garry Davidson\r\n\r\n2 Location of Royal Penguin Rookery boundaries at Sandy Bay and Bauer Bay for Mark Hindell\r\n\r\n3 Location and heights of the named mountain tops on the island for AUSLIG \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nInformation about the survey and data are provided in two reports:\r\n\r\nN. Adams, 'Survey Report for Macquarie Island, September to November 1997' and M. King, R. Coleman and P. Standen, 'GPS data processing, Macquarie Island, September to November 1997'.\r\n\r\nAvailable for download from the URLs below are:\r\n\r\n(i) The differentially corrected point data from the walking track survey, as a spreadsheet.\r\n\r\nAttributes include surface, disturbance indicators, drainage and gradient.\r\n\r\n(ii) Vegetation along the walking tracks (points) extracted from the differentially corrected point data, as a shapefile. \r\n\r\n(ii) Walking tracks (lines) generated from the differentially corrected point data, as a shapefile. \r\n\r\n(iii) Natasha's survey report as a pdf.\r\n\r\nThe walking tracks are displayed in a pair of A3 1:50000 maps produced by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre. \r\n\r\nA map list in the URLs below ...