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heard_vegetation_gis

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Citation
Harris, U. (2008) Heard Island Vegetation GIS Dataset, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/heard_vegetation_gis, Accessed: 2026-05-24
Title
Heard Island Vegetation GIS Dataset
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
Created Date
1999-10-07
Revision Date
2018-08-17
Parent record
None

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    Description

    Heard Island and McDonald Islands, vegetation layer.
    This is a polygon dataset stored in the Geographical Information System (GIS).
    The data represents approximately the areas of vegetation cover on these islands.

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    Quality

    It appears the data were initially digitised off the Heard Island satellite image map, published in 1991. The data were a line layer in MapInfo format. Later (approx. 1998) the data were converted into a polygon ArcInfo coverage. The layer was also clipped to match the AMBIS Heard Island coastline, but not clipped to take into account lakes.

    The data were edited by eye in 2001 using areas sketched by Jenny Scott on 1:50000 maps of Heard Island and on a figure of McDonald Island in a paper (Jenkin, J. F. 1997 Vegetation of the McDonald Islands, sub-Antarctic. Polar Biology. 18: 260-272.). Jenny's sketches were based on the Heard Island satellite image map and her field work 1986/87, 1987/88 and October-November 2000.

    Usually mapped to a Universal Transverse Mercator projection, Zone 43.

    Access

    These data are publicly available for download from the provided URLs.

    Stored data format: ArcView shapefile
    Available format type: ArcView shapefile. Stored as geographicals with a projection file.

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -52.95
    Southernmost:
    -53.21

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    73.24
    Easternmost:
    73.90

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

    • GIS
    • HEARD
    • VEGETATION

    Locations

    • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
    • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

    Platforms

    • MAPS

    Instruments

    • Computer

    Researchers

    • harris, ursula (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)

    Use Constraints

    This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License
    (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

    Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=heard_vegetation_gis when using these data.

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