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Geomorphology and Habitats of the Carnarvon Shelf

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Flythrough movie showing the bathymetry of Carnarvon shelf, highlighting benthic habitats at Point Cloates. The bathymetric image is derived from multibeam sonar collected in 2008 using a 300 kHz Simrad EM3002 system on RV Solander. Key features on the shelf include a prominent ridge at 60 m water depth and a complex area of smaller ridges and mounds across the inner shelf. The ridges and mounds provide hard substrate for diverse coral and sponge communities. The Carnarvon shelf is a study site for the Marine Biodiversity Research Hub, funded through the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (CERF) programme. Survey work was carried out as a collaboration between Geoscience Australia and the Australian Institute of Marine Science. Further information is provided in GA Record 2009/02.

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Title Geomorphology and Habitats of the Carnarvon Shelf
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/91b40690-32e1-4e64-bbca-989d92de44b2
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Geoscience Australia Data
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Geomorphology and Habitats of the Carnarvon Shelf". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/geomorphology-and-habitats-of-the-carnarvon-shelf