Map of Giant Kelp Marine Forests of South East Australia
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Victor Harbor The ! 139°E Coorong 140°E 141°E 142°E 143°E 144°E 145°E 146°E 147°E 148°E 149°E 150°E Bordertown T! his map has been compiled from existing landscape scale datasets that do not specifically map the defined national ecological community and vary in scale and accuracy. Ground-truthing is required to verify the presence of the EC for site based projects, planning or investment decisions. Such decisions Margaret Brock Reef S should refer to the text of the Listing Advice at www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl. S ° !! Cape Jaffa ° 7 7 3 Guichen Bay 3 ! Cape Dombey Disaster Green Coorong Robe ! For current information published by the Department on your area of interest you are advised to use the Bay Cape Protected Matters Search Tool at www.eBanllavraitronment.gov.au/epbc/pmst/index.html Mallacoota Cape Rivoli Bay ! Cape Buffon ! !! ! Howe Mount Hamilton Lakes ! Gabo ! Melbourne !! Canunda Beach ! Gambier ! Entrance ! !! Island ! S ! Cape Banks S ° ° 8 8 3 Sale 3 !! ! Point Lonsdale Portland Warrnambool Torquay ! ! !! ! !! ! ! Cowes ! ! !!! ! Cen!tral ! ! Cape ! ! Storm Otway Victoria Bay Twofold !! Shelf S S ° ! ° 9 ! 9 3 3 Otway ! Wilsons Promontory Flinders S S ° ° 0 0 4 4 Giant Kelp Marine Forests Waterhouse Point ! ! S of South East Australia Green Smithton S ° ° 1 Eddystone Point 1 4 Point 4 Franklin Reef Boags ! Binalong Bay Ecological Community Devonport Launceston ! St Marys ! Rosebery ! Freycinet S S ° ° 2 Queenstown 2 4 ! 4 Legend Freycinet ! Locality IMCRA regions Grindstone Point Major roads Boags Mercury Passage Maria Island Limit of State waters Bruny Hobart ! S S ° Central Victoria ° 3 Ecological Community 3 4 Tasman Peninsula 4 Port Likely to occur Coorong Fortescue Bay Davey Huon Point Bruny Port May occur - substrate Davey Eliza Point Island Arthur Flinders Southport Bruny Franklin Davey Island S S ° Freycinet ° 4 4 4 4 Otway Twofold Shelf South Eastern Tasmania Flinders ! S S ° Boags ° 5 5 4 Waterhouse Point 4 Map Description Eddystone Point ! 'Likely to occur': Areas where the threatened ecological community is likely to occur are compiled from Edyvane historic and current extant mapping (1), Victorian video survey data (2), and descriptions of ! locations supplied by experts. George Town 'May occur': ! S Binalong Bay S ° Areas where the threatened ecological community may occur are compiled from the following ! ° 6 6 4 datasets: 4 mapped '1.2.1.0 Rock dominated' from NISB dataset (3); mapped '1.2.0.0 Rock Substrate' from NISB dataset (3); Used datasets 'high_profile_reef' and 'low_profile_reef' from the Edyvane report dataset (1); mapped 'Rocky Reef' and 'Bedrock' from attribute 'GH_TYPE' of dataset 'OzEstuaries_poly' (4). ! These combined 'may occur' datasets were then clipped by broad bathymetry ( 0-40m bsl.) (5). Launceston Source: St Marys (1) Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) beds in Tasmania from the Dr Karen Edyvane report: ! S S ° "Conservation, Monitoring and Recovery of Threatened Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) Beds in ° 7 7 4 Tasmania – Final Report", 2002. 4 (2) Victorian DPI Macrocystis marine habitat video mapping, 1996-2008 and 2009-10. (3) National Intertidal/Subtidal Benthic (NISB) dataset of the Estuarine, Coastal and Marine National Habitat Map Series 1:100,000, SeaMap Tasmania Merged Habitat Layers for the Australian Coastal Vulnerability Project, Tasmania Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute, University of Tasmania, Freycinet 2007. (4) OzEstuaries (coastal waterways geomorphic habitat mapping) 1:100,000 © Commonwealth of Australia, Geoscience Australia, 2003 ! S (5) Bathymetry, 0.0025dd © Commonwealth of Australia, Geoscience Australia, 2009 Campbell Town S ° ° 8 8 4 4 Localities 1:10,000,000 © Commonwealth of Australia, Geoscience Australia, 2004 Roads 1:10,000,000 © Commonwealth of Australia, Geoscience Australia, 2002 State borders 1:25,000 © Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment, Tasmania, 2003. Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia (IMCRA) v4 - Meso-scale Bioregions © Commonwealth of Australia, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage. ! Freycinet 2006. Australian Maritime Boundaries (AMB) - Limit of coastal waters © Commonwealth of Australia, Peninsula S S ° Geoscience Australia, 2006. ° 9 9 4 4 Ecological community area have been drawn larger than they are to improve visibility. ! Caveat: Grindstone Point The information presented in this map has been provided by a range of groups and agencies. While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy and completeness, no guarantee is given, nor responsibility taken by the Commonwealth for errors or omissions, and the Commonwealth does not accept responsibility in respect of any information or advice given in relation to, or as a consequence ! of,anything containing herein. The map has been collated from a range of sources, with data at ! S Mercury Passage Maria Island S ° ° 0 various resolutions. Data used are assumed to be correct as received from the data suppliers. 0 5 5 Bridgewater ! Produced by: ! ERIN (Environmental Resources Information Network) Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and New Norfolk Communities Hobart ! August 2012 © Commonwealth of Australia, 2012 Kingston ! S S ° Tasman Peninsula ° 1 1 5 5 ! Cygnet ! ! Fortescue Bay ! ! Storm Bay Huon Point ! ! Port Arthur GCS GDA 94 S Bruny Island S ° ° 2 1:4,750,000 2 5 ± Bruny 5 Southport Island ! ! 75 37.5 0 75 150 225 300 Eliza Point 1:1,700,000 Approx. kms Davey 139°E 140°E 141°E 142°E 143°E 144°E 145°E 146°E 147°E 148°E 149°E 150°E.