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Estimated environmental impact and ecological risk posed by contaminated sites in the Australian Antarctic Territory and Australian sub-Antarctic islands

Entry ID: SOE_contaminated_sites_impact

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Summary

Abstract: INDICATOR DEFINITION
The environmental impacts and risk of contaminated sites in the Australian Antarctic Territory and Australian sub-Antarctic Islands.

TYPE OF INDICATOR
There are three types of indicators used for State of the Environment reporting:
1. Describes the CONDITION of important elements of a system;
2. Show the extent of major PRESSURE exerted on a system;
3. Determine the RESPONSE ...

Related URL

Link: GET DATA

Description: Download page for Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Link: GET SERVICE

Description: Contaminated Sites Register

Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE

Description: Display SoE Indicator 81

Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Description: Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: -53.0

S: -70.0

E: 160.0

W: 60.0

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2002-08-30

Location Keywords

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > Heard Island

Science Keywords

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > HEAVY METALS CONCENTRATION

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > OIL SPILLS

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT > ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS

ISO Topic Category

ENVIRONMENT

Quality Graph 1 - The quantity of contaminated material associated with each category of environmental risk plotted annually. This indicates the type of environmental risk associated with contaminated sites in the Australia Antarctic Territory and after several years will indicate whether it is changing. The measure of good environmental performance is that over time the quantity of material assessed as Environmental Risk - Serious will decrease, indicating prioritised remediation of the high risk sites.

Access Constraints These data are publicly available for download from the URL given below.

Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Ancillary Keywords

ANTARCTICA

CONTAMINANTS

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia

Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC Phone: +61 3 6232 3244 Fax: +61 3 6232 3351 Email: metadata at aad.gov.au Contact Address: Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway City: Kingston Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7050 Country: Australia