MAP LOCALITY TIWI ISLANDS Study Area SOIL TYPES LAND UNITS North East DARWIN NHULUNBUY Bathurst JABIRU 635000mE 640000mE 645000mE 650000mE 635000mE 640000mE 645000mE 650000mE Island KATHERINE THE NARROWS TIMOR SEA Brace Pirlangimpi Point Milikapiti NORTHERN TIWI ISLANDS TIMOR SEA Brace Point Wurankuwu TENNANT 5 Melville Island CREEK 12c 12a Bathurst Melville Island THE NARROWS Pickertaramoor TERRITORY Deception Wurrumiyanga Point Luxmore 12c ALICE Head Island SPRINGS 12a 12c 12a 12c 29 12b 12c 12a Example of Land Unit Descriptions 1 12c 12c 12c Landform Landform description Soil description Murrow Tamar 12c Point 12c 7a 12b Melville Point 12a 12a 5 12c 12a 8d PLAINS 12c 12c 12c 12c 12c Pinyianappi 12c Beach Island Gently inclined lower slopes. Red Kandosols. Eucalyptus tetrodonta, Eucalyptus miniata and 8a1 Corymbia nesophila very tall open woodland. 5 2 1 25 Deception Point 12c 12b 12c 12c Luxmore Head 12b 12d Land unit Vegetation description PORT 12c 12c 12c 10a 12b 8d 12b 12b 12b 12c COCKBURN 8745000mN 10a 12b 8745000mN Dudwell 8d 12a LAND UNIT DESCRIPTIONS 12b 8a1 1 26 12b 1 Creek LOW HILLS Bathurst Island Pirlangimpi 8a 8a1 12c Undulating steep hillslopes. Red Kandosols. Eucalyptus tetrodonta, Corymbia bleeseri and 10b 10a 12b 5a Eucalyptus miniata very tall woodland. 12b 12a 8d Sinclair 10a Point 6 5 12d RISES 10a 12b 12b 11 12b Moderately inclined hillslopes. Brown Kandosols and Red Orthic Tenosols. Eucalyptus miniata and 10a Tamar Point 6a Eucalyptus tetrodonta tall woodland. Murrow Point 12a 8c1 12b 12b 8a1 8a Harris 12b 9 8c LOW RISES Island 27 12c 12d 12c Gently inclined hillslopes. Red Kandosols and Red Orthic Tenosols. Eucalyptus miniata and mixed spp. 12a 7a very tall open woodland. 5 12a 8735000mN 8740000mN 8745000mN 12b PLAINS 12a 12b Wallamajara 12a 26 Very gently inclined upland plains. Red Kandosols. Eucalyptus miniata, Corymbia nesophila and 1 8c 10a 1 8a Beach 12 7a 12b Eucalyptus tetrodonta very tall open woodland. 7a 8a 12a PORT 8c 10a Gently inclined lower slopes. Red Kandosols. Eucalyptus tetrodonta, Eucalyptus miniata and 12a 10b 10b 12b 8a1 Corymbia nesophila very tall open woodland. 12a 12c 8a1 COCKBURN 12d 1 12b 10b 8d Undulating plains. Red Kandosols. Eucalyptus miniata and Eucalyptus tetrodonta tall woodland. 8a1 8c 10a 12a 8b 9 8c1 8c 12c Kandosols 10b 10a 11a 11a 12d Seasonal wet plains. Kandosolic Redoxic Hydrosols. Corymbia nesophila very tall open woodland. 8c1 10b 8c1 11b 8a1 8d 8c 11a 11a 10a Dudwell 12a 10b 12c Hydrosols 8740000mN 8740000mN Seasonal wet plains prone to inundation and seasonal waterlogging. Kandosolic Redoxic Hydrosols APSLEY STRAIT 8a 8c1 and Brown Kandosols. Melaleuca viridiflora and/or Lophostemon lactifluus mid high open woodland. 10c 26 10b 10a 8730000mN 8735000mN 8740000mN 8745000mN 8730000mN 26 12b 1 Creek 10a Bathurst Island metres 0 2500 metres 8c 10a Dry monsoon vine thicket on lower slopes. Red Kandosols. Dry monsoon vine thicket. 10b 10a 8d 10c 8a 10b 10b 10b 8a1 10c 8d 8a 10a 12c 10a 10b Pirlangimpi DRAINAGE SYSTEMS 8c 12b 635000mE 640000mE 645000mE 650000mE 11a 18 Drainage depressions including springs and alcoves. Kandosolic Redoxic Hydrosols and Oxyaquic 10a Hydrosols. Lophostemon lactifluus or Melaleuca viridiflora or Melaleuca leucadendra tall woodland. 10b 12b 8c 1 8a1 10a 8a1 Sinclair Point 5 Drainage depressions including springs and alcoves. Kandosolic Redoxic Hydrosols. Wet evergreen 1 10b 28 1 10b 12a 8a1 monsoon forest. 8a VEGETATION CLASSES 12d 12b 10c 10a Drainage depressions. Redoxic Hydrosols. Dapsilanthus spp. and/or Schoenus spp. medium closed 10b 10c sedgeland. 635000mE 640000mE 645000mE 650000mE 8a1 12b 10a Harris THE NARROWS 6 Island SWAMPS TIMOR SEA Brace 10a 8a 29 Point 4 Closed depressions. Kandosolic Redoxic Hydrosols. Lophostemon lactifluus and mixed spp. mid high 10a 10b 11a open woodland. 12c 14 10a 8a1 8c Closed depressions. Kandosolic Redoxic Hydrosols. Melaleuca spp. tall open forest. 10c 10a 10b 11b 10a 10b 8a1 1 1 23 10c 32 12d 10c 7a 8d Melville 10a 8a1 10b MARINE 10c Deception 7a 10b 10b 10a Luxmore Mangroves. Intertidal Hydrosols. Ceriops tagal, Bruguiera spp. and Rhizophora stylosa mid high to Point Island 12d 12a Head 10b tall closed forest. 10a 8735000mN 8a1 10b 8735000mN 10c Salt flats. Intertidal Hydrosols. Tecticornia spp. miniature samphire shrubland. 5 12b 10a 10b 8d 8b 10c 8a 10b Beach ridges. Tenosolic Oxyaquic Hydrosols. Melaleuca dealbata mid high open woodland. 10a 12c 8a 10a Murrow Tamar 10a 10a 12d 10b 8c Point Point FIELD SITE LOCATIONS 8a1 Supratidal flats. Supratidal Hydrosols. Eleocharis spp. and Schoenoplectus littoralis medium 12d 8a1 35 10b sedgeland. 10a 8a 8c 11a 7a 10a 44 10a 10b 8a1 10c 10b Land resource information has been derived from aerial photograph interpretation and field data describing PORT 10a 10b 12d landform, soil and vegetation. Mapping has been collected according to the national standards and prepared 8c1 11a at a scale of 1 : 25 000. Enlarging this map beyond this scale will not provide further detail. A site inspection 10b COCKBURN 10a 8a should always accompany mapping for specific areas. Dudwell 10c 8c 8d 28 58 8a1 5a Creek 10b 6a Bathurst Island Pirlangimpi 6a 8c 10c 1 10c 8a National Committee on Soil and Terrain (2009) AUSTRALIAN SOIL AND LAND SURVEY FIELD HANDBOOK. 10b 12a 10b 10b 10a Sinclair 10c 6a 3rd Edition. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne. 10a Point 10c 10b 10b 10b 10a 10c Isbell R.F. (2002). THE AUSTRALIAN SOIL CLASSIFICATION. Revised Edition. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. 10b Executive Steering Committee for Australian Vegetation Information (ESCAVI) (2003). 8a1 5a 10a 10c 7a 6a 12c AUSTRALIAN VEGETATION ATTRIBUTE MANUAL: NATIONAL VEGETATION INFORMATION SYSTEM, VERSION 6. 10c 10b 10b 10b Department of Environment and Heritage, Canberra. Harris 66 10c 12d Island 7a 10c 10b 1 8730000mN 10b 8730000mN 5a APSLEY STRAIT Closed forest TIWI ISLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 8735000mN 8740000mN 8745000mN BIO-PHYSICAL RESOURCES OF NORTH EAST BATHURST ISLAND Open forest 6a (Technical Report January 2015) 34 Land Assessment, Rangelands Division, Department of Land Resource Management Woodland 10a 66 For further information contact: Open woodland Manager, Land Assessment, Rangelands Division, Department of Land Resource Management Ph. (08) 8999 4443 Email: [email protected] Web: www.lrm.nt.gov.au Samphire shrubland Level 3, Goyder Centre, 25 Chung Wah Terrace, Palmerston, Northern Territory of Australia. 635000mE 640000mE 645000mE 650000mE Sedgeland APSLEY STRAIT C Northern Territory of Australia Cartography by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 8730000mN 8735000mN 8740000mN 8745000mN 8730000mN GENERAL FEATURES This map was produced This publication is provided under a Creative This product and all material forming part of it is copyright belonging to the Northern Territory of Australia. 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