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WAMSI Node 1.3 and 1.4 - Benthic habitat surveys of potential LNG hub locations in the Kimberley region

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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A number of sites in the Kimberley region were considered for their suitability as a location for a proposed common-user liquefied natural gas hub precinct. These included Gourdon Bay, Quondong - Coulomb Point, Perpendicular Head and Packer Island. The marine benthic communities at these prospective sites are largely undescribed. On behalf of the Northern Development Taskforce (NDT), the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation (DECWA) has approached CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) to undertake a joint benthic community survey of four locations in this region. This survey data will compliment the limited existing data and will used by NDT to rank and select suitable sites to be included in a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SAE). This selection process will be used to identify a suitable hub site that will minimise the degree of habitat disturbance by avoiding areas of high biodiversity and significance for threatened species and high productivity and structural complexity that may contain complex marine habitats, endemic species and important wildlife.

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Title WAMSI Node 1.3 and 1.4 - Benthic habitat surveys of potential LNG hub locations in the Kimberley region
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/ffb18d82-c200-4e2f-b015-60643e4f28ee
Remote Last Updated 16/05/2023
Contact Point
Western Australian Marine Science Institution
gary.fry@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/05/2008 - 31/08/2008
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Western Australia Government "WAMSI Node 1.3 and 1.4 - Benthic habitat surveys of potential LNG hub locations in the Kimberley region". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/benthic-habitat-surveys-of-potential-lng-hub-locations-in-the-kimberley-region