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CSIRO Drift Card and Drift Bottle information sheets

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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Drift bottles and drift cards are two of the oldest methods used to trace ocean currents. Drift bottles were were released by CSIRO's division of Fisheries and Oceanography from various locations along Australia's eastern coast between 1938-40, and off Western Australia between 1954-57. Drift cards have been released from various locations around Australia, and off South Africa since about 1969. The PDF documents under the links section contain most of the information available via the Datacentre, No raw data is associated with this record.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title CSIRO Drift Card and Drift Bottle information sheets
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/6dcd4ddd-a45a-439f-859a-bb4b71b53ffd
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/1938 - 01/01/1985
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        20.0,
        -90.0
      ],
      [
        180.0,
        -90.0
      ],
      [
        180.0,
        28.0
      ],
      [
        20.0,
        28.0
      ],
      [
        20.0,
        -90.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "CSIRO Drift Card and Drift Bottle information sheets". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/csiro-drift-card-and-drift-bottle-information-sheets1