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Victorian Benthic Habitats - Open Coasts

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 12/01/2026

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The Victorian seabed habitat map documents the distribution of broad benthic habitat types in Victorian Coastal Waters to the State’s 3 nautical mile jurisdictional limit. The map was created using a top-down modelling process whereby habitat descriptors were assigned using seafloor structure and biological information derived from multibeam sonar (Victorian Marine Habitat Mapping Project), bathymetric LiDAR (Future Coasts program) and observations from underwater video.

Identification of benthic biota, to the lowest discernible taxonomic level, and substrate characteristics were recorded according to the Victorian Towed Video Classification scheme (Ierodiaconou et al. 2007).

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Field Value
Title Victorian Benthic Habitats - Open Coasts
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/0502e5ad-b7fb-4e9f-a480-562d15f8b5db
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
alex.r@deakin.edu.au
Reference Period 01/01/2007 - 13/01/2012
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        140.05,
        -39.29
      ],
      [
        150.07,
        -39.29
      ],
      [
        150.07,
        -37.18
      ],
      [
        140.05,
        -37.18
      ],
      [
        140.05,
        -39.29
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Victorian Benthic Habitats - Open Coasts". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/victorian-benthic-habitats-open-coasts