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Note: this dataset description is metadata (data about data) which describes the actual dataset in accordance with the ANZLIC (Australia New Zealand Land Information Council) Core Metadata Guidelines v2
ANZLIC unique identifier: ANZCW1003100004
Title: Pandora Pipeline Project Terrestrial Vertebrate Fauna Survey
Custodian: Cape York Land Council
Jurisdiction: Australia
Assessment of potential impacts of the proposed Pandora pipeline on fauna, between landfall on Cape York, and the Palmer River.
During a 28-day field survey using bird censusing and spotlighting, 188 species were recorded at 289 sites, and 128 of these sites were identified as highly significant for the conservation of the fauna.
- FAUNA Vertebrates
- Geographic extent name:
- Cape York Peninsula - CYP - Assorted Australasian Regions
Geographic bounding box:
Outer bounding rectangle as Latitude/Longitude coordinates based on the WGS84 datum (expressed as both Degrees Minutes Seconds and as decimal Degrees):
- North bounding latitude: 9 30 00.0 S (-9.5)
- South bounding latitude: 16 30 00.0 S (-16.5)
- East bounding longitude: 146 00 00.0 E (146)
- West bounding longitude: 141 00 00.0 E (141)
Restricted.
Lineage:
Field observations made on custom-designed cards and manually entered directly into Phyla database.
Positional accuracy:
All locations geocoded using GPS averaging to within 100m.
Attribute accuracy:
Documented in accompanying hardcopy report. Based on McDonald, et al.'Australian Soil and Land Survey: Field handbook' (2nd Ed.)
Logical consistency:
Uniformly consistent attribute recording for observations
Completeness:
Dataset is complete
A hardcopy of the final report is held by Alex Thomas (alex@didg.com).
This dataset description complies with ANZLIC Core Metadata Guidelines v2 and XML DTD ANZMETA 1.3 (metadata validation date: 2001-06-27)