Sea Floor Map Tasmania

Anyone considering visiting a fossicking site should first view this layer in order to gain an understaning of the boundaries of their intended.

Sea floor map tasmania. Investigator produces its first tasmanian sea floor maps by andrew wright december 11th 2014 over the past few weeks hydrographers on board australia s new marine national facility research vessel investigator have created the first 3 d images of the ocean floor around tasmania. The areas clearly define where fossicking is permitted without a prospecting licence. Tasmania s designated fossicking areas are available as a layer on the map viewer accessable via this website. The sea was named after the dutch explorer abel janszoon tasman who was the first recorded european to encounter new zealand and tasmania.

A marine gravity map of the north atlantic ocean red dots show locations of earthquakes with magnitude 5 5 and they highlight the present day location of the seafloor spreading ridges and. The 1 25000 coastline was supplied by the land information services division of the department of primary industry water and environment tasmania equipment employed to record and measure the data included simrad es60 120 khz single beam echo sounder omnilite132 differential gps morphcam underwater video rft creator lucieer vanessa dr rft. The results that let this new marvelously detailed map of the seafloor from nasa s earth observatory be made were actually first published last year as part of a paper in science from. The development of floodplain maps covering a large percentage of tasmania s flood prone areas in this short period of time is testimony to the co operation of all involved.

Under the mapping program a set of floodplain maps were produced during the 1990s covering eight urban areas huonville new norfolk the lower jordan river richmond. Tasman sii is a marginal sea of the south pacific ocean situated between australia and new zealand it measures about 2 000 km 1 200 mi across and about 2 800 km 1 700 mi from north to south. Australia marine fishing app marine charts app now supports multiple plaforms including android iphone ipad macbook and windows pc based chartplotter the marine navigation app provides advanced features of a marine chartplotter including adjusting water level offset and custom depth shading. Click on a management boundary on the map to generate habitat statistics for that region and to download the subsetted benthic habitat data.