Marine plastics found at Heard Island and Macquarie Island

This project monitored plastics at the four-bays area on Heard Island and at Sandell Bay on Macquarie Island. It characterised plastics by infra-red spectroscopy both from the beach collection and small pieces from fur-seal stomachs and cormorant boluses. The aim was to assess human impact on the oc...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: BURTON, HARRY (hasPrincipalInvestigator), BURTON, HARRY (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Subjects:
environment
oceans
CONTAMINANT LEVELS/SPILLS
EARTH SCIENCE
HUMAN DIMENSIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
OCEAN CONTAMINANTS
WATER QUALITY
Flotsam
Debris
rubbish
Marine Debris
garbage
VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
FIELD INVESTIGATION
FIELD SURVEYS
OCEAN &gt
SOUTHERN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN &gt
MACQUARIE ISLAND
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS
Heard
Heard Island
McDonald Islands
Southern Ocean
Macquarie Island
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/marine-plastics-heard-macquarie-island/701364
https://doi.org/10.26179/5c53c1d89713d
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Marine_Plastics_Heard_Macquarie
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
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Summary:This project monitored plastics at the four-bays area on Heard Island and at Sandell Bay on Macquarie Island. It characterised plastics by infra-red spectroscopy both from the beach collection and small pieces from fur-seal stomachs and cormorant boluses. The aim was to assess human impact on the ocean by measuring plastic abundance and type.

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