Marine Park Bathymetry (Gifford)
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Marine Park Bathymetry (Gifford) 
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**Authored on**: 2018-03   
**Updated on**: 2020-08  
**Author/s**: Michele Spinoccia, Rachel Nanson  
**License**: CC BY Attribution 4.0 International License

View the [original metadata page](https://cmi.ga.gov.au/data-products/marine/281/marine-park-bathymetry-gifford) for the most up-to-date information on this product.

Abstract
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Australia has established a network of 58 marine parks within Commonwealth waters covering a total of 3.3 million square kilometres, or 40 percent of our exclusive economic zone (excluding Australian Antarctic Territory).

These parks span a range of settings, from near coastal and shelf habitats to abyssal plains. Parks Australia manages the park network through management plans that came into effect for all parks on 1 July 2018.

What this product offers
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Geoscience Australia is contributing to their management by collating and interpreting existing environmental data, and through the collection of new marine data.

“Eco-narrative” documents are being developed for those parks, where sufficient information is available, delivering collations and interpretations of seafloor geomorphology, oceanography and ecology. Many of these interpretations rely on bathymetric grids (measuring of depth of water) and their derived products, including those in this data release.

Accuracy and limitations
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Not to be used for navigational purposes.

This dataset is published with the permission of the CEO, Geoscience Australia.

References
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Dove, D., Bradwell, T., Carter, G., Cotterill, C., Gafeira, J., Green, S., Krabbendam, M., Mellet, C., Stevenson, A., Stewart, H., Westhead, K., Scott, G., Guinan, J., Judge, M. Monteys, X., Elvenes, S., Baeten, N., Dolan, M., Thorsnes, T., Bjarnadóttir, L., Ottesen, D. (2016). Seabed geomorphology: a twopart classification system. British Geological Survey, Open Report OR/16/001.

Contacts
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For questions or more information about this product, email [DEA Support](mailto:dea@ga.gov.au?subject=Data%20Products%20support%20for%20Marine%20Park%20Bathymetry%20%28Gifford%29).