Gifford Marine Park Bathymetry - 30m Resolution Grid

• Main Author: Geoscience Australia
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2018
• Subjects: bathymetry; bathymetry grid; marine; marine data; Antarctic; Australian Antarctic Territory; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/25/5b3174bf2de9b; http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/121193

Australia has established a network of 58 marine parks within Commonwealth waters covering a total of 3.3 million square kilometres, or 40 per cent of our exclusive economic zone (excluding Australian Antarctic Territory). These parks span a range of settings, from near coastal and shelf habitats to abyssal plains. Parks Australia manages the park network through management plans that came into effect for all parks on 1 July 2018. Geoscience Australia is contributing to their management by collating and interpreting existing environmental data, and through the collection of new marine data. Eco-narrative documents are being developed for those parks, where sufficient information is available, delivering collations and interpretations of seafloor geomorphology, oceanography and ecology. Many of these interpretations rely on bathymetric grids and their derived products, including those in this data release.