Comprehensive socio-economic dataset for Norfolk Island including population demographics, economic indicators, geographic data, and social statistics. This dataset covers key metrics such as GDP, population density, area, capital city, and regional classifications.

This dataset contains counts of the total usual resident population and total dwelling count from the 2016 Census of Population and Housing for Mesh Blocks. Data is current for Census Night 9 August 2016 and describes geographic Australia; including Norfolk Island, the Territory of Christmas Island and the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, but does not include any other external Territory. Due to the small size of Mesh Blocks, data is confidentialised and only describes basic dwelling counts and number of persons usually resident. For more information, refer to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Census of Population and Housing: Mesh Block Counts, Australia, 2016.

Norfolk Island is a small, isolated archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, 1400 km East of the Australian mainland. The history of human colonisation and land use on the island has resulted in a substantial reduction in the extent and quality of indigenous habitat. We provide an updated checklist of the psyllid (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Psylloidea) present on this island. Collection records report a total of 14 species, of which nine are regarded as adventive, four as native, of which two are endemic, and one whose additional distribution is unknown.

This dataset was used for the following work:

Martoni F, Tweed J, Blacket M, Percy D. (2025) An annotated checklist of the psyllids (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) of Norfolk Island with a key to the species, new records, and descriptions of two new species. Zookeys.

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Abstract Major Roads is a subset of the National Roads dataset, filtered for highways, arterial and sub-arterial roads. National Roads is a digital representation of the road network of Australia. National Roads contains linear features to describe surfaces that have been improved to enable vehicular, pedestrian and bicycle transportation on land and ferry routes that enable vehicles to cross water bodies. National Roads does not include railways, tramways, driveways or passenger ferry routes. This dataset provides an optimised aggregated national view of road geometry and attribution. The dataset is created from multiple sources including jurisdictional data which is revised regularly and supplied in varying formats and at different levels of quality. The purpose of Roads is to provide a single national digital representation of Australian roads with detailed attribution to enable clients to undertake activities including visualisation, analysis and logistics planning at both a national and local scale. The area covers the land mass of Australia, including offshore islands. Norfolk Island is currently not included. Currency Date modified: February 2024 Modification frequency: Monthly Data Extent Spatial Extent West: 96° South: -44° East: 160° North: -9° Source Information The data was obtained from Geoscape Australia. Geoscience Australia is providing this data to the public under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Geoscience Australia catalog entry: Major Roads Lineage Statement National Roads provides a single national digital view of road centrelines across the entirety of Australia. Roads is continuously built through sourcing a broad range of datasets from many organisations. This data is quality assured, standardised, integrated and topology-corrected before publication. Road centrelines are primarily sourced from State and Territory governments and form the basis for the Roads network. Roads additional to the State and Territory provisions are digitised or integrated where reliable sources of road centrelines are identified that improves the quality and/or consistency of Roads nationally. For attribution of Roads data sources refer to this webpage: geoscape.com.au/legal/data-copyright-and-disclaimer/. The Digital Atlas of Australia team have published a feature layer for Major roads in GDA2020 format. Major roads is a filtered subset of the National roads dataset that have an operational status, and roads with a hierarchy value of National or State highway, arterial, or sub-arterial.

Attribute Name Description:

road_id Persistent identifier for a roads feature

contributor_id The contributor’s identifier for a Roads segment

jurisdictional_control The Jurisdiction with control of the road as defined by the source State or Territory Jurisdiction (e.g. TRANSPORT FOR NEW SOUTH WALES)

operator The operator of the road

date_created Date this record was created in the data custodian’s system. Where this date is not available, then the first date on which the feature was processed for inclusion within Roads

date_modified Date this record was last updated

national_route A route number to identify a route of National significance (e.g. C30)

state_route A route number to identify a route of State significance (e.g. A20)

full_street_name The full official road name, which is a concatenation of street_name, street_type, and street_suffix attributes (e.g. PARKES PLACE WEST)

street_name Name of the road (e.g. SMITH AND JOHN)

street_name_label Name of the road in Title Case (e.g. Smith and John)

street_type Type of road (e.g. ROAD, STREET, CIRCUIT, LANE)

street_type_label Type of road in Title Case (e.g. Road, Street)

street_suffix Suffix of road (e.g. WEST)

street_suffix_label Suffix of road in Title Case (e.g. West)

street_alias_name A secondary name of the road

street_alias_type A secondary type of the road

street_alias_suffix A secondary suffix of the road

feature_type The classification of a road according to its physical characteristics (e.g. MOTORWAY, SINGLE CARRIAGEWAY)

hierarchy Hierarchy of the road (e.g. NATIONAL OR STATE HIGHWAY)

subtype Physical type of a road (e.g. ROUNDABOUT)

ground_relationship The relationship the road has with the ground (e.g. ABOVE GROUND, ON GROUND, BELOW GROUND)

lane_count Number of physical lanes represented as a total count

lane_description Description of the physical lane count of a road

one_way Indicates if the road supports one-way or two-way traffic direction

status Lifecycle stage of a road (e.g. OPERATIONAL)

surface Surface of the road (e.g. SEALED)

trafficability Indicates the minimum type of vehicle advised to traverse the road (e.g. 2WD)

travel_direction Direction a ve...

This dataset contains counts of the total usual resident population and total dwelling count from the 2016 Census of Population and Housing for Mesh Blocks, aggregated to Statistical Area Level 4 …Show full descriptionThis dataset contains counts of the total usual resident population and total dwelling count from the 2016 Census of Population and Housing for Mesh Blocks, aggregated to Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4) for the AURIN Portal. Data is current for Census Night 9 August 2016 and describes geographic Australia; including Norfolk Island, the Territory of Christmas Island and the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, but does not include any other external Territory. For more information, refer to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Census of Population and Housing: Mesh Block Counts, Australia, 2016. Copyright attribution: Government of the Commonwealth of Australia - Australian Bureau of Statistics, (2017): ; accessed from AURIN on 12/16/2021. Licence type: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions dataset is maintained for the purpose of authoritative reporting on the Australian Government's NRM investments. The dataset is designed to cover all Australian territory where Australian Government funded NRM projects might take place and includes major islands, external territories, and state and coastal waters in addition to the NRM regional boundaries. Whilst the boundaries of NRM Regions are defined by legislation in some states and territories, this dataset should not be used to represent legal boundaries in any way. It is an administrative dataset developed for the purpose of reporting and public information. It should be noted that from time to time the states and/or territories may revise their regional boundaries in accordance with local needs and therefore alterations to either the attribution or boundaries of the data may occur in the future.Current VersionAs part of Phase Two of the National Landcare Program (NLP) the Australian Government's natural resource management (NRM) investments will be delivered with Regional Delivery Partners (RDPs) across 56 management units. These replace the previous NLP management units used in NLP Phase One. They are officially referred to as Regional Delivery Partners for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Services 2022. The spatial data for RDP management units are derived from the NRM Regions spatial data, as described below.The 2022 dataset defines NRM Region boundaries and Regional Delivery Partner management units in a single dataset, thereby overcoming version control issues with the previous approach of publishing separate data layers for each.To handle a variety of required derivations, a fundamental set of 64 NRM Region map objects was first defined. This can then be compiled using various queries on non-spatial attributes. For example, as set out below, we can define 56 continental NRM Regions and 8 off-shore NRM regions, or island sub components of NRM regions located on the continent. Across these a total of 56 RDP management units can also be defined.To identify those NRM regions located on the Australian continent, a "continental" field (yes/no) has been included, for the first time, in the 2022 dataset. It allows differentiation between off-shore and continental regions, and accommodates that some NRM regions (ie one each in NSW and Tasmania) have both a continental part (eg North Coast, NSW) and an off-shore part (eg North Coast - Lord Howe Island).In accordance with the Australian Government’s Remote Indigenous Procurement Policy (RIPP) and its application to NRM regional investment, we have identified 16 RDP management units with more than 50% overlap with RIPP areas, as defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. A RIPP field (yes/no) is included in the attribute table. The data structure allows either NRM Regions, RDP management units and those RDPs overlapping RIPPs to be mapped from the single dataset using the NRM_REGION, RDP_NAME and RIPP fields respectively. NRM_ID, RDP_ID and RIPP fields may also be used.The 2022 version updates the previous version (2020). In total, the 2022 version dataset comprises 64 NRM map objects for 62 NRM regions. These comprise 56 mainland regions (of which two have associated islands as separate map objects), the Torres Strait NRM region, and a further five external territories. Four of these external territories are islands and one is classified as Marine NRM. Using the RDP_NAME or RDP_ID fields to map Regional Delivery Partner management units will result in 56 RDP management unitsThese comprise: 54 mainland RDP management units (two of which have island components); Torres Strait; and a "Marine NRM" management unit. The Marine NRM unit combines Australia's Territorial Sea (from 3 nautical miles to 12 nautical miles) and Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone (to 200 nautical miles) as well as Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos Keeling Islands and Heard and McDonald Islands. It excludes coastal waters (to 3 nautical miles) which are part of the terrestrial RDP management units. It also excludes the Australian Antarctic Territory and Norfolk Island.The 2022 version was derived from the former NRM regions series (latest version was 2020), originally established in 2006 as the "Natural Heritage Trust II (NHT2) Region Boundaries" dataset. Changes to the 2020 version in creating the 2022 version include the following.Natural Resource Management Regions- 'Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges' NRM_Region split into 'Green Adelaide' and 'Hills ad Fleurieu'- Added two new NRM_IDs (4011 for Green Adelaide and 4012 for Hills ad Fleurieu)Regional Delivery Partner management units- Changed 'National Landcare Program Management Units' to 'Regional Delivery Partners for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Services' - 'Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges' split into 'Green Adelaide' and 'Hills ad Fleurieu'- Added two new RDP_IDs (4011 for Green Adelaide and 4012 for Hills ad Fleurieu)- 'Torres Strait', 'Green Adelaide' and 'Marine NRM' added * to match note *management unit covered through other financial arrangements- 'South West Queensland', 'Maranoa Balonne and Border Rivers' and 'Condamine' combined into 'Southern Queensland' with light grey dotted line to denote NRM borders.- Added the following fields to differentiate RDPs from NRMs- -RDP_ID- -RDP_NAME- -RDP_DESC (Previously AREA_DESC)- -RIPP- 'Torres Strait' and 'Green Adelaide' symbology changed to grey hatched filling. - The management units are coloured based on their overlap with the remote Indigenous Procurement Policy area (RIPP).- Remote management units are orange – to be incl. the management unit needed to have more than 50% overlap with the RIPP. - Non-remote management units are green- *Management units covered through other financial arrangements management units are grey with hatchingPrevious VersionsThe 2020 version NLP Management Units dataset contained 58 separate map objects. These comprised: 56 mainland Management Units; a separate object for Lord Howe Island (part of North Coast, NSW Management Unit); and a "Marine NRM" Management Unit which combined Australia's Territorial Sea (from 3 nautical miles to 12 nautical miles) and Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone (to 200 nautical miles). It excluded coastal waters (to 3 nautical miles) which are part of the terrestrial NLP Management Units. It also excluded Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos & Keeling Islands, Macquarie Island, Heard & MacDonald Islands and Norfolk Island, and those parts of Australia's Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone that surround these locations.The 2020 version was derived from the former NRM regions series, originally established in 2006 as the "Natural Heritage Trust II (NHT2) Region Boundaries" dataset. The 2017 version, from which the 2020 version was developed, was itself an update to 2016 v2 in which changes were made to boundaries of six of Western Australia’s seven NRM regions, and region names in Qld, Tas and WA. AttributesThe principle data fields in the 2022 version dataset are:-STATE -NRM_REGION-NRM_ID-NRM_DESC (Previously AREA_DESC)-RDP_ID-RDP_NAME-RDP_DESC (Previously AREA_DESC)-RIPP-CONTINENTALNRM_ID and NRM_REGION Names grouped by state/territory are as follows:New South Wales (11 regions + 1 extra map object for Lord Howe Island)1010 Central Tablelands1020 Central West1030 Greater Sydney1040 Hunter1050 Murray1060 North Coast1061 North Coast - Lord Howe Island1070 North West NSW1080 Northern Tablelands1090 Riverina1100 South East NSW1110 WesternVictoria (10 regions)2010 Corangamite2020 East Gippsland2030 Glenelg Hopkins2040 Goulburn Broken2050 Mallee2060 North Central2070 North East2080 Port Phillip and Western Port2090 West Gippsland2100 WimmeraQueensland (15 regions) 3010 Burnett Mary3020 Cape York3030 Condamine3040 Co-operative Management Area3050 Desert Channels3060 Fitzroy3070 Burdekin3080 Northern Gulf3090 Maranoa Balonne and Border Rivers3100 Mackay Whitsunday3110 South East Queensland3120 South West Queensland3130 Southern Gulf3140 Wet Tropics3150 Torres StraitSouth Australia (9 regions) 4011 Green Adelaide4012 Hills and Fleurieu4020 Alinytjara Wilurara4030 Eyre Peninsula4040 Kangaroo Island4050 Northern and Yorke4060 South Australian Arid Lands4070 South Australian Murray Darling Basin4080 Limestone CoastWestern Australia (7 regions)5010 Northern Agricultural Region5020 Peel-Harvey Region5030 Swan Region5040 Rangelands Region5050 South Coast Region5060 South West Region5070 Avon River BasinTasmania (3 regions + 1 extra map object for Macquarie Island)6010 North West NRM Region6020 North NRM Region6030 South NRM Region6031 South NRM Region - Macquarie IslandsNorthern Territory (1 region)7010 Northern TerritoryAustralian Capital Territory (1 region)8010 ACTExternal Territories (5 regions) 9010 Ashmore and Cartier Islands9020 Christmas Island9030 Cocos Keeling Islands9040 Heard and McDonald Islands9060 Marine NRM

This dataset contains counts of the total usual resident population and total dwelling count from the 2016 Census of Population and Housing for Mesh Blocks, aggregated to Statistical Area Level 3 …Show full descriptionThis dataset contains counts of the total usual resident population and total dwelling count from the 2016 Census of Population and Housing for Mesh Blocks, aggregated to Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3) for the AURIN Portal. Data is current for Census Night 9 August 2016 and describes geographic Australia; including Norfolk Island, the Territory of Christmas Island and the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, but does not include any other external Territory. For more information, refer to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Census of Population and Housing: Mesh Block Counts, Australia, 2016. Copyright attribution: Government of the Commonwealth of Australia - Australian Bureau of Statistics, (2017): ; accessed from AURIN on 12/16/2021. Licence type: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Abstract:This dataset presents maps of fishing intensity and maximum area fished of ocean waters of all Australian Government-managed fisheries combined (ALLFSY). The data were prepared as part of the annual ABARES Fishery Status Report series, which provides an independent evaluation of the biological and economic status of fish stocks managed solely or jointly by the Australian Government. The data were produced by ABARES from data supplied by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA). The data are presented annually, by calendar year. The data are polygon vector format, stored in an ESRI file geodatabase, prepared using ArcGIS Desktop ArcMap version 10.6. Fishing intensity is defined as the total catch within a given year, divided by the total area fished in square kilometres. Fishing intensity is presented as classified data in low, medium and high intensity classes. The data attributes include the class, the range of values in the class and the unit of measure. The classification used may vary from year to year, depending on a range of environmental and economic factors.Maximum area fished is defined as the maximum area within which fishing occurred during a given fishing season as polygon cells of one degree of longitude by one degree of latitude (approximately 111 kilometres x 111 kilometres). A cell is included if any fishing activity occurred anywhere within that one degree by one degree cell. Note that cells included in this dataset may also partially cover land. The data supplied by AFMA were filtered to remove activity by fewer than five boats within the area of analysis in order to conform with AFMA’s Information Disclosure Policy (https://www.afma.gov.au/about/fisheries-management-policies/information-disclosure-fisheries-management-paper).The Australian Government-managed fisheries included in this dataset are: - Bass Strait Central Zone Scallop Fishery (BSCZSF) - Coral Sea Fishery (CSF) - Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery (ETBF) - Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF) - North West Slope Trawl Fishery (NWSTF) - Small Pelagic Fishery (SPF) - Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery Sectors (SESSF): - SESSF Commonwealth Trawl Sector, Danish seine sub-sector (SCDS) - SESSF Commonwealth Trawl Sector, Squid Catch (SCSQ) - SESSF Commonwealth Trawl Sector, Trawl sub-sector (SCTR) - SESSF East Coast Deepwater Trawl Sector (SECD) - SESSF Scalefish Hook Sector (SSCK) - SESSF Great Australian Bight Trawl Sector (SGAB) - SESSF Gillnet Hook & Trap Sector, Shark Hook sub-sector (SSKK) - SESSF Gillnet Hook & Trap Sector, Shark Net sub-sector (SSKN) - Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery (SBTF)- Southern Squid Jig Fishery (SSJF)- Torres Strait Prawn Fishery (TSPF) - Western Deepwater Trawl Fishery (WDWTF) - Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery (WTBF) Data from the following fisheries are not included: - Norfolk Island Fishery (inactive fishery) - Heard Island and McDonald Islands Fishery (HIMI) (fishery assessed by the Australian Antarctic Division) - Macquarie Island Toothfish Fishery (MITF) (fishery assessed by the Australian Antarctic Division) - Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) exploratory toothfish fisheries - Torres Strait Finfish Fishery (no data collection) - Torres Strait Tropical Rock Lobster Fishery (no data collection) - Torres Strait Bêche-de-mer and Trochus Fisheries (no data collection)- South Tasman Rise Trawl Fishery (inactive fishery) - Skipjack Tuna Fishery (inactive fishery)© Commonwealth of Australia 2021, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences. Department of Agriculture, Water and the EnvironmentDownloads and Links:Download the datasetUser GuideUser guide: ABARES Fishery Status Reports Map Data 2010–20: Downloadable data – PDF [416 KB]Further resourceshttps://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/research-topics/fisheries/fishery-status/fsr-map-data

This dataset is from a paper by Kellie Pendoley and Margaret Christian (2012) giving a summary of marine turtle records for Norfolk Island, Australia. Nothing has been published in the modern literature on the status of marine turtles at Norfolk Island although their presence has been recognised since 1793 (Fidlon & Ryan 1980). This study brings together all the available published, anecdotal and field survey data on marine turtles at Norfolk Island so that the status of habitat usage could be established. The results confirm the Norfolk Island group is used for foraging by resident adult and juvenile Chelonia mydas (Green) turtles and adult Eretmochelys imbricata (Hawksbill) turtles. The natal beaches for these resident animals are thought to be Melanesian and Polynesian islands to the north and the beaches of north eastern Australia. While juvenile hawksbill turtles have not been recorded foraging at Norfolk Island they are the most common species and age class recorded in the island's strandings data. The confirmation of marine turtles at Norfolk means that any species proposals must include assessment of project impacts on these under Australian Federal legislation and their marine bioregional processes.

The Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions dataset is maintained for the purpose of authoritative reporting on the Australian Government's NRM investments. The dataset is designed to cover all Australian territory where Australian Government funded NRM projects might take place and includes major islands, external territories, and state and coastal waters in addition to the NRM regional boundaries. Whilst the boundaries of NRM Regions are defined by legislation in some states and territories, this dataset should not be used to represent legal boundaries in any way. It is an administrative dataset developed for the purpose of reporting and public information. It should be noted that from time to time the states and/or territories may revise their regional boundaries in accordance with local needs and therefore alterations to either the attribution or boundaries of the data may occur in the future.Current VersionAs part of Phase Two of the National Landcare Program (NLP) the Australian Government's natural resource management (NRM) investments will be delivered with Regional Delivery Partners (RDPs) across 56 management units. These replace the previous NLP management units used in NLP Phase One. They are officially referred to as Regional Delivery Partners for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Services 2022. The spatial data for RDP management units are derived from the NRM Regions spatial data, as described below.The 2022 dataset defines NRM Region boundaries and Regional Delivery Partner management units in a single dataset, thereby overcoming version control issues with the previous approach of publishing separate data layers for each.To handle a variety of required derivations, a fundamental set of 64 NRM Region map objects was first defined. This can then be compiled using various queries on non-spatial attributes. For example, as set out below, we can define 56 continental NRM Regions and 8 off-shore NRM regions, or island sub components of NRM regions located on the continent. Across these a total of 56 RDP management units can also be defined.To identify those NRM regions located on the Australian continent, a "continental" field (yes/no) has been included, for the first time, in the 2022 dataset. It allows differentiation between off-shore and continental regions, and accommodates that some NRM regions (ie one each in NSW and Tasmania) have both a continental part (eg North Coast, NSW) and an off-shore part (eg North Coast - Lord Howe Island).In accordance with the Australian Government’s Remote Indigenous Procurement Policy (RIPP) and its application to NRM regional investment, we have identified 16 RDP management units with more than 50% overlap with RIPP areas, as defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. A RIPP field (yes/no) is included in the attribute table.The data structure allows either NRM Regions, RDP management units and those RDPs overlapping RIPPs to be mapped from the single dataset using the NRM_REGION, RDP_NAME and RIPP fields respectively. NRM_ID, RDP_ID and RIPP fields may also be used.The 2022 version updates the previous version (2020). In total, the 2022 version dataset comprises 64 NRM map objects for 62 NRM regions. These comprise 56 mainland regions (of which two have associated islands as separate map objects), the Torres Strait NRM region, and a further five external territories. Four of these external territories are islands and one is classified as Marine NRM.Using the RDP_NAME or RDP_ID fields to map Regional Delivery Partner management units will result in 56 RDP management unitsThese comprise: 54 mainland RDP management units (two of which have island components); Torres Strait; and a "Marine NRM" management unit. The Marine NRM unit combines Australia's Territorial Sea (from 3 nautical miles to 12 nautical miles) and Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone (to 200 nautical miles) as well as Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos Keeling Islands and Heard and McDonald Islands. It excludes coastal waters (to 3 nautical miles) which are part of the terrestrial RDP management units. It also excludes the Australian Antarctic Territory and Norfolk Island.The 2022 version was derived from the former NRM regions series (latest version was 2020), originally established in 2006 as the "Natural Heritage Trust II (NHT2) Region Boundaries" dataset. Changes to the 2020 version in creating the 2022 version include the following.Natural Resource Management Regions- 'Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges' NRM_Region split into 'Green Adelaide' and 'Hills ad Fleurieu'- Added two new NRM_IDs (4011 for Green Adelaide and 4012 for Hills ad Fleurieu)Regional Delivery Partner management units- Changed 'National Landcare Program Management Units' to 'Regional Delivery Partners for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Services'- 'Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges' split into 'Green Adelaide' and 'Hills ad Fleurieu'- Added two new RDP_IDs (4011 for Green Adelaide and 4012 for Hills ad Fleurieu)- 'Torres Strait', 'Green Adelaide' and 'Marine NRM' added * to match note management unit covered through other financial arrangements- 'South West Queensland', 'Maranoa Balonne and Border Rivers' and 'Condamine' combined into 'Southern Queensland' with light grey dotted line to denote NRM borders.- Added the following fields to differentiate RDPs from NRMs- -RDP_ID- -RDP_NAME- -RDP_DESC (Previously AREA_DESC)- -RIPP- 'Torres Strait' and 'Green Adelaide' symbology changed to grey hatched filling.- The management units are coloured based on their overlap with the remote Indigenous Procurement Policy area (RIPP).- Remote management units are orange – to be incl. the management unit needed to have more than 50% overlap with the RIPP.- Non-remote management units are green- Management units covered through other financial arrangements management units are grey with hatchingPrevious VersionsThe 2020 version NLP Management Units dataset contained 58 separate map objects. These comprised: 56 mainland Management Units; a separate object for Lord Howe Island (part of North Coast, NSW Management Unit); and a "Marine NRM" Management Unit which combined Australia's Territorial Sea (from 3 nautical miles to 12 nautical miles) and Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone (to 200 nautical miles). It excluded coastal waters (to 3 nautical miles) which are part of the terrestrial NLP Management Units. It also excluded Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos & Keeling Islands, Macquarie Island, Heard & MacDonald Islands and Norfolk Island, and those parts of Australia's Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone that surround these locations.The 2020 version was derived from the former NRM regions series, originally established in 2006 as the "Natural Heritage Trust II (NHT2) Region Boundaries" dataset. The 2017 version, from which the 2020 version was developed, was itself an update to 2016 v2 in which changes were made to boundaries of six of Western Australia’s seven NRM regions, and region names in Qld, Tas and WA.AttributesThe principle data fields in the 2022 version dataset are:-STATE-NRM_REGION-NRM_ID-NRM_DESC (Previously AREA_DESC)-RDP_ID-RDP_NAME-RDP_DESC (Previously AREA_DESC)-RIPP-CONTINENTALNRM_ID and NRM_REGION Names grouped by state/territory are as follows:New South Wales (11 regions + 1 extra map object for Lord Howe Island)1010 Central Tablelands1020 Central West1030 Greater Sydney1040 Hunter1050 Murray1060 North Coast1061 North Coast - Lord Howe Island1070 North West NSW1080 Northern Tablelands1090 Riverina1100 South East NSW1110 WesternVictoria (10 regions)2010 Corangamite2020 East Gippsland2030 Glenelg Hopkins2040 Goulburn Broken2050 Mallee2060 North Central2070 North East2080 Port Phillip and Western Port2090 West Gippsland2100 WimmeraQueensland (15 regions)3010 Burnett Mary3020 Cape York3030 Condamine3040 Co-operative Management Area3050 Desert Channels3060 Fitzroy3070 Burdekin3080 Northern Gulf3090 Maranoa Balonne and Border Rivers3100 Mackay Whitsunday3110 South East Queensland3120 South West Queensland3130 Southern Gulf3140 Wet Tropics3150 Torres StraitSouth Australia (9 regions)4011 Green Adelaide4012 Hills and Fleurieu4020 Alinytjara Wilurara4030 Eyre Peninsula4040 Kangaroo Island4050 Northern and Yorke4060 South Australian Arid Lands4070 South Australian Murray Darling Basin4080 Limestone CoastWestern Australia (7 regions)5010 Northern Agricultural Region5020 Peel-Harvey Region5030 Swan Region5040 Rangelands Region5050 South Coast Region5060 South West Region5070 Avon River BasinTasmania (3 regions + 1 extra map object for Macquarie Island)6010 North West NRM Region6020 North NRM Region6030 South NRM Region6031 South NRM Region - Macquarie IslandsNorthern Territory (1 region)7010 Northern TerritoryAustralian Capital Territory (1 region)8010 ACTExternal Territories (5 regions)9010 Ashmore and Cartier Islands9020 Christmas Island9030 Cocos Keeling Islands9040 Heard and McDonald Islands9060 Marine NRMCredit:The NRM region boundaries (2006 base layer) are primarily based on data and information supplied by the relevant state and territory government agencies. Geoscience Australia's Australian Maritime Boundaries (2014) and Geodata Coast 100K (2004) data were also used in the development of this dataset. Local Land Service region boundaries were sourced from the NSW Government.

Knowledge about the breeding location and abundance of migratory and non-migratory seabirds has been used over the past decade to address fundamental questions in marine research. Up to date, no consistent sea bird breeding data is present for the Australian offshore islands. Here, we present a collated and homogenized data collection of records made on breeding populations from Australian offshore islands. Records were collected from all available sources spanning a timeframe from 1902 – 2023. Record numbers were manually quality checked and locations adjusted based on original comments and satellite imagery. We present data of 1043 locations situated in Australian offshore waters, including Norfolk Islands and the Subantarctic islands. Breeding numbers of any additional, non-seabird species are also given.The data set is designed to be used to inform conservation and planning and serves as a base line for future research.

AbstractNational Roads is a digital representation of the road network of Australia. National Roads contains linear features to describe surfaces that have been improved to enable vehicular, pedestrian and bicycle transportation on land and ferry routes that enable vehicles to cross water bodies. National Roads does not include railways, tramways, driveways or passenger ferry routes.This dataset provides an optimised aggregated national view of road geometry and attribution. The dataset is created from multiple sources including jurisdictional data which is revised regularly and supplied in varying formats and at different levels of quality.The purpose of Roads is to provide a single national digital representation of Australian roads with detailed attribution to enable clients to undertake activities including visualisation, analysis and logistics planning at both a national and local scale.The area covers the land mass of Australia, including offshore islands. Norfolk Island is currently not included.CurrencyDate modified: October 2025Modification frequency: MonthlyData ExtentSpatial ExtentWest: 96°South: -44°East: 160°North: -9° Source InformationThe data was obtained from Geoscape Australia on 31 October 2025. Geoscience Australia is providing this data to the public under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.Geoscience Australia catalogue entry: National RoadsLineage StatementNational Roads provides a single national digital view of road centrelines across the entirety of Australia. Roads is continuously built through sourcing a broad range of datasets from many organisations. This data is quality assured, standardised, integrated and topology-corrected before publication.Road centrelines are primarily sourced from State and Territory governments and form the basis for the Roads network. Roads additional to the State and Territory provisions are digitised or integrated where reliable sources of road centrelines are identified that improves the quality and/or consistency of Roads nationally. For attribution of Roads data sources refer to this webpage: geoscape.com.au/legal/data-copyright-and-disclaimer/.The Digital Atlas of Australia team have published a hosted feature layer for the National roads and a subset dataset called Major Roads in GDA2020 format.Data DictionaryAttribute NameDescriptionroad_idPersistent identifier for a roads featurecontributor_idThe contributor’s identifier for a Roads segmentjurisdictional_controlThe Jurisdiction with control of the road as defined by the source State or Territory Jurisdiction (e.g. TRANSPORT FOR NEW SOUTH WALES)operatorThe operator of the roaddate_createdDate this record was created in the data custodian’s system. Where this date is not available, then the first date on which the feature was processed for inclusion within Roadsdate_modifiedDate this record was last updatednational_routeA route number to identify a route of National significance (e.g. C30)state_routeA route number to identify a route of State significance (e.g. A20)full_street_nameThe full official road name, which is a concatenation of street_name, street_type, and street_suffix attributes (e.g. PARKES PLACE WEST)street_nameName of the road (e.g. SMITH AND JOHN)street_name_labelName of the road in Title Case (e.g. Smith and John)street_typeType of road (e.g. ROAD, STREET, CIRCUIT, LANE)street_type_labelType of road in Title Case (e.g. Road, Street)street_suffixSuffix of road (e.g. WEST)street_suffix_labelSuffix of road in Title Case (e.g. West)street_alias_nameA secondary name of the roadstreet_alias_typeA secondary type of the roadstreet_alias_suffixA secondary suffix of the roadfeature_typeThe classification of a road according to its physical characteristics (e.g. MOTORWAY, SINGLE CARRIAGEWAY)hierarchyHierarchy of the road (e.g. NATIONAL OR STATE HIGHWAY)subtypePhysical type of a road (e.g. ROUNDABOUT)ground_relationshipThe relationship the road has with the ground (e.g. ABOVE GROUND, ON GROUND, BELOW GROUND)lane_countNumber of physical lanes represented as a total countlane_descriptionDescription of the physical lane count of a roadone_wayIndicates if the road supports one-way or two-way traffic directionstatusLifecycle stage of a road (e.g. OPERATIONAL)surfaceSurface of the road (e.g. SEALED)trafficabilityIndicates the minimum type of vehicle advised to traverse the road (e.g. 2WD)travel_directionDirection a vehicle is allowed to travelspeedPosted speed limit for the section of road to which it is attributedstateIndicates the State or Territory abbreviation of the jurisdiction its linear geometry predominantly intersects (e.g. NSW)sourceThe contributor source that has provided the record (e.g. NSW)horizontal_accuracyThe horizontal accuracy of the line feature in relation to the real-world location in metresContactContact: Geoscience Australia clientservices@ga.gov.au

Label data from specimens in the Australian Museum (Sydney), and the Australian National Insect Collection (CSIRO, Canberra) have been compiled. Abundance data is excluded. Only those species collected within the mainland part of the geopolitical boundary of the Australian state of New South Wales are included; Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island (McEvey, 2017) are excluded. To this dataset has been added distribution records from the literature, mainly works by Bock and Parsons (1970s and 1980s) and McEvey (1994, 2020) and from the shared datasets of colleagues Dr Michele Schiffer (Drosophila serrata; SourceNote = 3) and Prof. J.S.F. Barker (species associated with Opuntia cactus; SourceNote = 1). Coordinate accuracy is indicated as follows: a specimen of a species reported from the Blue Mountains, for example, without any other geospatial information, has very low “Coordinate Precision” indicated as ±100km (Precision 5); whereas a specimen collected at a high-accuracy GPS waypoint has very high “Coordinate Precision” indicated as ±10m to ±100m (Precision 1 to 2); a Precision 2 coordinate may lie within the range of a Precision 5-rated coordinate (for example Mount Wilson within the Blue Mountains). The taxonomy of a small number of species is problematic, in particular, uncertainty currently surrounds Drosophila repleta (SourceNote = 2), Scaptodrosophila notha and S. specensis (SourceNote = 4) (McEvey, unpubl.). As indicated by McEvey (1994, 2020), many of the 125 species known from NSW have distributions that extend beyond the political border, especially northwards into the Australian state of Queensland.

As part of Phase Two of the National Landcare Program (NLP) the Australian Government’s natural resource management (NRM) investments will be delivered within NLP Management Units. The NLP Management Units dataset is maintained for the purpose of authoritative reporting on the Australian Government's NRM investments. It is designed to cover all Australian territory where Australian Government funded NRM investments might be delivered. This dataset should not be used to represent legal boundaries (notwithstanding that some boundaries are defined by legislation in some states and territories). It is an administrative dataset developed for the purpose of reporting and public information. Alterations to either the attribution or boundaries of the data may occur in the future, for example to accord with changes to NRM delivery arrangements or to reflect revisions of state/territory regional boundaries.Current VersionThe 2018 version NLP Management Units dataset contains 58 separate mapping objects. These comprise:56 mainland Management Units. A separate object for Lord Howe Island (part of North Coast, NSW Management Unit) A “Marine NRM” Management Unit which combines Australia's Territorial Sea (from 3 nautical miles to 12 nautical miles) and Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone (to 200 nautical miles). It excludes coastal waters (to 3 nautical miles) which are part of the terrestrial NLP Management Units. It also excludes Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos & Keeling Islands, Macquarie Island, Herd & MacDonald Islands and Norfolk Island, and those parts of Australia's Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone that surround these locations.The 2018 version was derived from the former NRM regions series (latest version was 2017), originally established in 2006 as the “Natural Heritage Trust II (NHT2) Region Boundaries” dataset. No changes to the spatial alignment of terrestrial region boundaries was made in transitioning from NRM regions to NRM Management Units. The principle data fields in the 2018 version dataset are:NLP_MU (note this replaces the former NRM_Region field) State (state, territory or ‘external’for the Marine NRM unit)Area_Description (eg land area only, state and coastal waters, )NRM_ID (as described below)NRM_ID and NLP_MU names, grouped by state/territory, are as follows:New South Wales (11 Management Units + 1 extra map object for Lord Howe Island)1010 Central Tablelands1020 Central West1030 Greater Sydney1040 Hunter1050 Murray1060 North Coast (excludes Lord Howe Island)1061 North Coast - Lord Howe Island1070 North West NSW1080 Northern Tablelands1090 Riverina1100 South East NSW1110 WesternVictoria (10 Management Units)2010 Corangamite2020 East Gippsland2030 Glenelg Hopkins2040 Goulburn Broken2050 Mallee2060 North Central2070 North East2080 Port Phillip and Western Port2090 West Gippsland 2100 WimmeraQueensland (15 Management Units) 3010 Burnett Mary3020 Cape York3030 Condamine3040 Co-operative Management Area (between Cape York and Northern Gulf)3050 Desert Channels3060 Fitzroy3070 Burdekin 3080 Northern Gulf3090 Maranoa Balonne and Border Rivers 3100 Mackay Whitsunday3110 South East Queensland3120 South West Queensland3130 Southern Gulf3140 Wet Tropics3150 Torres StraitSouth Australia (8 Management Units) 4010 Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges4020 Alinytjara Wilurara4030 Eyre Peninsula4040 Kangaroo Island4050 Northern and Yorke4060 South Australian Arid Lands4070 South Australian Murray Darling Basin4080 South EastWestern Australia (7 Management Units)5010 Northern Agricultural Region5020 Peel-Harvey Region5030 Swan Region 5040 Rangelands Region5050 South Coast Region5060 South West Region5070 Avon River BasinTasmania (3 Management Units)6010 North West NRM Region6020 North NRM Region6030 South NRM RegionNorthern Territory (1 Management Unit)7010 Northern TerritoryAustralian Capital Territory (1 Management Unit)8010 ACTExternal (1 Management Unit) 9060 Marine NRMPrevious VersionsThe 2017 version updated the previous version (2016 version 2) with changes to region boundaries in Western Australia and NRM names in Qld, Tas and WA. The 2017 version also removed the NRM_BODY data (added for 2016 version 2) and the non-spatial OceanWatch map label previously included. The 2016 version 2 updated the marine portion of the NRM regions to be consistent with the current (2015) Australian Maritime Boundaries Information System (AMBIS) coastal water limit boundary. It also included a new four digit unique NRM_ID field for sorting purposes. The 2016 version 2 maintained definitions established in the 2015 version, including for the Peel-Harvey NRM region and for the OceanWatch Australia Limited NRM organisation (not spatially defined). It also maintained changes made in earlier versions including: the 2014 changes in NSW from Catchment Management Authorities (CMA) to Local Land Service areas; and the 2012 update/formalisation of the 2010 dataset (which was an interim update of the NRM Regions 2009 dataset, released Feb 2009). The original base layer version of this dataset was released in 2006 as the Natural Heritage Trust II (NHT2) Region Boundaries dataset.Data to be available in the Public Domain under Creative Commons by Attribution Licensing Agreement. More information can be found here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en CC - Attribution (CC BY) © Commonwealth of Australia (Department of the Environment and Energy) 2018

This dataset depicts polygons of potential acid sulfate soils identified as part of the Norfolk Island Water Resource Assessment (NIWRA). Areas were mapped due to the importance to groundwater …Show full descriptionThis dataset depicts polygons of potential acid sulfate soils identified as part of the Norfolk Island Water Resource Assessment (NIWRA). Areas were mapped due to the importance to groundwater recharge, surface water storage and managed aquifer recharge. These soils may either contain acidity or have the potential to form acid in amounts that have impacts on water quality, the environment (wetlands and creeks) and infrastructure. Further acid sulfate soil information can be found in the NIWRA technical report (Petheram et al., 2020) and described in Appendix D of the NIWRA technical report. The metadata and files (if any) are available to the public.

AbstractMajor Roads is a subset of the National Roads dataset, filtered for highways, arterial and sub-arterial roads. National Roads is a digital representation of the road network of Australia. National Roads contains linear features to describe surfaces that have been improved to enable vehicular, pedestrian and bicycle transportation on land and ferry routes that enable vehicles to cross water bodies. National Roads does not include railways, tramways, driveways or passenger ferry routes.This dataset provides an optimised aggregated national view of road geometry and attribution. The dataset is created from multiple sources including jurisdictional data which is revised regularly and supplied in varying formats and at different levels of quality.The purpose of Roads is to provide a single national digital representation of Australian roads with detailed attribution to enable clients to undertake activities including visualisation, analysis and logistics planning at both a national and local scale.The area covers the land mass of Australia, including offshore islands. Norfolk Island is currently not included.CurrencyDate modified: October 2025Modification frequency: MonthlyData ExtentSpatial ExtentWest: 96°South: -44°East: 160°North: -9° Source InformationThe data was obtained from Geoscape Australia on 31 October 2025. Geoscience Australia is providing this data to the public under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.Geoscience Australia catalogue entry: Major RoadsLineage StatementNational Roads provides a single national digital view of road centrelines across the entirety of Australia. Roads is continuously built through sourcing a broad range of datasets from many organisations. This data is quality assured, standardised, integrated and topology-corrected before publication.Road centrelines are primarily sourced from State and Territory governments and form the basis for the Roads network. Roads additional to the State and Territory provisions are digitised or integrated where reliable sources of road centrelines are identified that improves the quality and/or consistency of Roads nationally. For attribution of Roads data sources refer to this webpage: geoscape.com.au/legal/data-copyright-and-disclaimer/.The Digital Atlas of Australia team have published a feature layer for Major roads in GDA2020 format. Major roads is a filtered subset of the National roads dataset that have an operational status, and roads with a hierarchy value of National or State highway, arterial, or sub-arterial.Data DictionaryAttribute NameDescriptionroad_idPersistent identifier for a roads featurecontributor_idThe contributor’s identifier for a Roads segmentjurisdictional_controlThe Jurisdiction with control of the road as defined by the source State or Territory Jurisdiction (e.g. TRANSPORT FOR NEW SOUTH WALES)operatorThe operator of the roaddate_createdDate this record was created in the data custodian’s system. Where this date is not available, then the first date on which the feature was processed for inclusion within Roadsdate_modifiedDate this record was last updatednational_routeA route number to identify a route of National significance (e.g. C30)state_routeA route number to identify a route of State significance (e.g. A20)full_street_nameThe full official road name, which is a concatenation of street_name, street_type, and street_suffix attributes (e.g. PARKES PLACE WEST)street_nameName of the road (e.g. SMITH AND JOHN)street_name_labelName of the road in Title Case (e.g. Smith and John)street_typeType of road (e.g. ROAD, STREET, CIRCUIT, LANE)street_type_labelType of road in Title Case (e.g. Road, Street)street_suffixSuffix of road (e.g. WEST)street_suffix_labelSuffix of road in Title Case (e.g. West)street_alias_nameA secondary name of the roadstreet_alias_typeA secondary type of the roadstreet_alias_suffixA secondary suffix of the roadfeature_typeThe classification of a road according to its physical characteristics (e.g. MOTORWAY, SINGLE CARRIAGEWAY)hierarchyHierarchy of the road (e.g. NATIONAL OR STATE HIGHWAY)subtypePhysical type of a road (e.g. ROUNDABOUT)ground_relationshipThe relationship the road has with the ground (e.g. ABOVE GROUND, ON GROUND, BELOW GROUND)lane_countNumber of physical lanes represented as a total countlane_descriptionDescription of the physical lane count of a roadone_wayIndicates if the road supports one-way or two-way traffic directionstatusLifecycle stage of a road (e.g. OPERATIONAL)surfaceSurface of the road (e.g. SEALED)trafficabilityIndicates the minimum type of vehicle advised to traverse the road (e.g. 2WD)travel_directionDirection a vehicle is allowed to travelspeedPosted speed limit for the section of road to which it is attributedstateIndicates the State or Territory abbreviation of the jurisdiction its linear geometry predominantly intersects (e.g. NSW)sourceThe contributor source that has provided the record (e.g. NSW)horizontal_accuracyThe horizontal accuracy of the line feature in relation to the real-world location in metresContactContact: Geoscience Australia clientservices@ga.gov.au

Abstract

This dataset and its metadata statement were supplied to the Bioregional Assessment Programme by a third party and are presented here as originally supplied.

The Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions dataset was prepared for the purpose of reporting on the Australian Government's previous natural resource management program, Caring for our Country (2008-2013). The dataset was designed to cover all Australian territory where Caring for our Country projects might have taken place including major islands; external territories; state and coastal waters; in addition to the 56 NRM regions. This version of the data is an update and formalisation of the 'interim 2010' dataset (which was an interim update of the NRM Regions 2009 dataset- publicly released in Feb 09). Whilst the boundaries of NRM Regions are defined by legislation in some states and territories this dataset should not be used to represent legal boundaries in any way. It is an administrative dataset developed for the purpose of reporting and public information. It should be noted that from time to time the states and/or territories may revise their regional boundaries in accordance with local needs and therefore alterations to either the attribution or boundaries of the data may occur in the future. 'Caring for our Country commenced on 1 July 2008 and closed on 30 June 2013. It integrated delivery of the Australian Government's previous natural resource management programs: the Natural Heritage Trust, the National Landcare Program, the Environmental Stewardship Program and the Working on Country Indigenous land and sea ranger program. This is an administrative dataset developed for the purpose of reporting and public information. The dataset is not a legal boundary dataset and does not represent legal boundaries in any way. In total, this dataset represents 60 regions as set out below. They comprise 55 mainland regions administered by 54 NRM regional bodies (one region in QLD is jointly administered by two adjacent regional bodies) and seven islands (five administered by the Australian Government as external territories, and two administered by nearby mainland NRM regional bodies). Queensland 1. Border Rivers Maranoa-Balonne 2. Burdekin 3. Burnett Mary 4. Cape York 5. Condamine 6. Desert Channels 7. Fitzroy 8. Mackay Whitsunday 9. Northern Gulf 10. South East Queensland 11. South West Queensland 12. Southern Gulf 13. Torres Strait 14. Wet Tropics 15. Cooperative Management Area (administered jointly by Cape York and Northern Gulf) NSW 1. Central Tablelands 2. Central West 3. Greater Sydney 4. Hunter 5. Murray 6. North Coast (Including Lord Howe Island) 7. North West 8. Northern Tablelands 9. Riverina 10. South East 11. Western ACT 1. ACT Victoria 1. Corangamite 2. East Gippsland 3. Glenelg Hopkins 4. Goulburn Broken 5. Mallee 6. North Central 7. North East 8. Port Phillip and Western Port 9. West Gippsland 10. Wimmera TAS 1. North 2. North West 3. South 4. Macquarie Islands (administered by NRM South) South Australia 1. Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges 2. Alinytjara Wilurara 3. Eyre Peninsula 4. Kangaroo Island 5. Northern and Yorke 6. South Australian Arid Lands 7. South Australian Murray Darling Basin 8. South East WA 1. Avon 2. Northern Agricultural 3. Perth 4. Rangelands 5. South Coast 6. South West Northern Territory 7. Northern Territory External Territories (administered by the Australian Government) 1. Ashmore and Cartier Islands 2. Christmas Island 3. Cocos Keeling Islands 4. Heard and McDonald Islands 5. Norfolk Island

Dataset History

2006 Base Layer

The base layer for this dataset is the Natural Resource Management (NRM) Region Boundaries (formerly known as Natural Heritage Trust II (NHT2) Region Boundaries (2006)). This base layer has been perdiodically reviewed and built on to develop subsequent datasets.

The original 2006 base layer included an offshore component for regions in SA, TAS and QLD. Offshore components for the other States and the Northern Territories were created using Geoscience Australia's AMB 2006 coastal waters data. Mainland region boundaries were checked with all state and territory agencies resulting in changes to the internal mainland boundaries for QLD and WA. The amended boundaries were sourced from the relevant agency from these States.

Geoscience Australia's Geodata Coast 100K 2004 dataset was used for mainland state/territory borders. The AMB 2006 data was used to define the offshore boundaries between the States and the Northern Territory. Offshore boundaries between NRM Regions within a State were produced by extending region boundaries at 90 degrees to the state 100k coastline unless otherwise requested by state or territory agencies.

2009 version

This version included updates to: the internal boundaries within WA and Qld; the seaward extent of coastal regions, which were extended to the 3 Nm coastal waters limit for all States and the Northern Territory; the inclusion of more offshore islands (and coastal waters); and the addition of external territories and their 12 Nm territories sea.

The coastline has been removed from the data in line with the decision to extend all coastal NRM Regions to the outer limit of the adjacent coastal waters. It should be noted that the removal of the coastline means that islands lying within the outer limit of the Coastal Waters adjacent to the mainland are no longer depicted as separate features in the data. For example the many islands in Shark Bay WA are not displayed as separate entities in this dataset as they fall within the expanded (marine) extent of the Rangelands NRM Region in the new dataset. Users intending to create sub-continental scale maps to communicate locations of NRM regions boundaries are recommended to use additional layers containing coasts and near shore islands (as well as state/territory borders and major towns if required).

Not all coastal waters for the States and/or the Northern Territory have been included in the data. The primary consideration was whether land based activities might affect the adjacent waters. For the 2009 and subsequent datasets, coastal waters adjacent to the mainland and islands contained in the Geodata Coast 100K dataset are included. Significant islands include Macquarie Island (Tas) and Lord Howe Island (NSW).

Australia's External Territories (Heard and McDonald Islands, Cocos Keeling Islands, Christmas Island, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, and Norfolk Islands) have also been included in the 2009 and subsequent versions. The reporting region for these islands is the area within the outer limit of the 12 Nm Territorial Sea adjacent to each of these External Territories as sourced from the AMB 2006 data.

Specific issues relating to the development of the 2009 version for each State are described below:

WA- Data supplied from different WA regions contained overlaps around the Perth NRM. The Perth NRM confirmed that the NRM bodies work across neighbouring regions. As these boundaries remain ambiguous (and are not defined in any legislation) the Australian Government Land and Coasts settled on the boundaries in this dataset for the purposes of reporting.

NSW - Jervis Bay was added to the Southern Rivers NRM region after consultation with the Australian Government Land and Coasts NSW Team. Lord Howe Island was added to the NSW dataset as a part of the Northern Rivers NRM Region. The NSW Catchment Management Authority (CMA) Hawkesbury-Nepean, provided the marine NRM divisions between theirs and Central-Rivers, identifying that their northern regional boundary bisects Lion Island.

VIC - The Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) provided a state NRM dataset for this update. Their boundaries matched the pre-existing NRM Region Boundaries dataset, except for one small area between East and West Gippsland. Victoria agreed to use the pre-existing NRM boundaries in this area.

The addition of the 3Nm coastal waters component for Victoria presented a challenge in defining the offshore boundaries between Port Phillip and Westernport and the neighbouring NRM Regions of Corangamite and West Gippsland. The islands on the western shore of Port Phillip Bay in the vicinity of Queenscliff (Swan Island and Duck Island) and Swan Bay have been included in the Corangamite NRM region. From north to south the border between the Corangamite NRM region and Port Phillip and Westernport Bay NRM region is a line drawn from the eastern arm of Edwards Point to Swan Point, along the eastern shore of Swan Island and between the southern extremity of Swan Island to the eastern extremity of Point Queenscliff. The offshore boundary between these regions is a line drawn directly south from Point Lonsdale to the outer limit of coastal waters. Finally, the offshore boundary between Port Phillip and Westernport Bay and West Gippsland is a line drawn directly south from the town of San Remo to the outer limit of coastal waters.

Tas - The area of Coastal Waters adjacent to the Hogan Group of islands in Bass Straight is divided between Victoria and Tasmania. For the purpose of this dataset the entire area has been allocated to the North NRM region of Tasmania.

2010 Version

The major changes to the data for this dataset are that new NRM region boundaries for South Australia which came into effect on 1 July 2009 have been incorporated into the data; and, the data structure (attributes) have been modified. Other more minor changes include: all offshore boundaries between States and/or the Northern Territory were reviewed to be consistent with the agreed coastal waters boundaries as depicted in Geoscience Australia's AMB 2006 data; the area of coastal waters adjacent to the Cooperative Management Area in Queensland has been included in that region; and, the external territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands has been added to the dataset.

2012 Version

This dataset incorporates

The Norfolk Island Green Parrot (Cyanoramphus cookii) Wild Breeding Project (2013-2014) dataset contains records of Green Parrot breeding success and survival rates per nesting site, including number of eggs laid, number of chicks hatched and number of chicks fledged. Records of sex composition are recorded as well as records of parental attendance and any nesting disturbance. For information on study site coordinates (restricted data) for this species, please contact the dataset author.

This dataset contains counts of the total usual resident population and total dwelling count from the 2016 Census of Population and Housing for Mesh Blocks, aggregated to Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3) for the AURIN Portal. Data is current for Census Night 9 August 2016 and describes geographic Australia; including Norfolk Island, the Territory of Christmas Island and the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, but does not include any other external Territory. For more information, refer to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Census of Population and Housing: Mesh Block Counts, Australia, 2016.

In 2005 Geoscience Australia and the National Oceans Office undertook a joint project to produce a consistent, high-quality 9 arc second (0.0025° or ~250m at the equator) bathymetric grid for Australian waters. In 2009 a number of new datasets were included in an updated version of the grid.

The 2009 bathymetric grid of Australia has been produced to include recently acquired datasets, and solutions to issues identified in the previous version. The revised grid has the same extents as its 2005 counterpart, including the Australian water column jurisdiction lying between 92° E and 172° E, and 8° S and 60° S. The waters adjacent to the continent of Australia and Tasmania are included, as are areas surrounding Macquarie Island, and the Australian Territories of Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, and Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The area selected does not include Australia's marine jurisdiction offshore from the Territory of Heard and McDonald Islands and the Australian Antarctic Territory.

This report details the datasets and procedures used to produce the 2009 bathymetric grid of Australia. As per the 2005 grid, the 0.0025 decimal degree (dd) resolution is only supported where direct bathymetric observations are sufficiently dense (e.g. where swath bathymetry data or digitised chart data exist) (Webster and Petkovic, 2005). In areas where no sounding data are available (in waters off the Australian shelf), the grid is based on the 2 arc minute ETOPO (Smith and Sandwell, 1997) and 1 arc minute ETOPO (Amante and Eakins, 2008) satellite derived bathymetry. The topographic data (on shore data) is based on the revised Australian 0.0025dd topography grid (Geoscience Australia, 2008), the 0.0025dd NZ topography grid (Geographx, 2008) and the 90m SRTM DEM (Jarvis et al, 2008).

The final dataset has been provided in ESRI grid and ER Mapper (ers) formats. An associated shapefile has been produced so that the user can identify the input datasets that were used in the final grid.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

This grid is not suitable for use as an aid to navigation, or to replace any products produced by the Australian Hydrographic Service. Geoscience Australia produces the 0.0025dd bathymetric grid of Australia specifically to provide regional and local broad scale context for scientific and industry projects, and public education.

The 0.0025dd grid size is, in many regions of this grid, far in excess of the optimal grid size for some of the input data used. On parts of the continental shelf it may be possible to produce grids at higher resolution, especially where LADS or multibeam surveys exist. However these surveys typically only cover small areas and hence do not warrant the production a regional scale grid at less than 0.0025dd.

There are a number of bathymetric datasets that have not been included in this grid for various reasons. Comments or queries about the data included in the grid (or excluded) can be directed to: IDEASRequests@ga.gov.au.

This grid is not suitable for use as an aid to navigation, or to replace any products produced by the Australian Hydrographic Service.

You can also purchase hard copies of Geoscience Australia data and other products at http://www.ga.gov.au/products-services/how-to-order-products/sales-centre.html