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Treading lightly: How geoscience is revealing human impacts in Antarctica

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Antarctica conjures images of expansive white icesheets but what about the 1% not covered by ice? Though small, these exposed islands of rock are hotspots of human and animal activity. Tourism, infrastructure development, and research activities can harm these fragile environments and in the dry Antarctic climate, damage from walking and vehicle tracks can persist for years. Geoscience Australia’s landscape vulnerability project has been addressing knowledge gaps about how these environments react to disturbance by people, how they recover, and new methods to track landscape change. Through this work, GA is helping build Australia’s capability as a leader in Antarctic environmental stewardship and meet our obligations under the Antarctic Treaty System and domestic legislation.

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Title Treading lightly: How geoscience is revealing human impacts in Antarctica
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/bd5d2b88-7cbb-41a5-9776-3a7deb9d5775
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 08/04/2019
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Treading lightly: How geoscience is revealing human impacts in Antarctica". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/treading-lightly-how-geoscience-is-revealing-human-impacts-in-antarctica