Marine Plain, Princess Elizabeth Land, Australian Antarctic Territory, Antarctica [cartographic material] : digital orthophoto map 1:10,000 / published ... by the Australian Surveying and Land Information Group for Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories Australian Antarctic Division
- Bib ID:
- 2676831
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Australian Surveying and Land Information Group
- Scale:
- Scale 1:10,000, 1 cm to 100 metres ; transverse Mercator proj. (E 78°00'15"--E 78°12'00"/S 68°36'00"--S 68°39'00")
- Description:
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- [Canberra] : Australian Surveying and Land Information Group for the Dept. of the Environment, Sport and Territories, Australian Antarctic Division, 1993
- 1 map : col. ; 55 x 81 cm.
- Series:
- Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) map collection ; no. 3/4/38.
- Full contents:
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- Ancillary diagrams on verso: Contours: reliability diagram
- Contours: source diagram
- Imagery: source diagram.
- Ancillary map on verso: Marine Plain, names. Scale 1:12,500.
- Biography/History:
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Marine Plain is representative of a major Antarctic terrestrial ice-free ecosystem with outstanding fossil fauna and rare geological features. It is of exceptional ongoing scientific interest and has been subject to several detailed geological, palaeontological, geomorphological and glaciological studies. This is the first time much of this information has been available from the coast of East Antarctica. Marine Plain is of exceptional scientific interest because of its relevance to the palaeoecological and palaeoclimatic record of Antarctica. The Area has yielded outstanding vertebrate fossil fauna including Australodelphis mirus, the first higher vertebrate named from the Oligocene-Pleistocene interval on land in Antarctica, and the first cetacean fossil from the polar margin of circum-Antarctic Southern Ocean that postdates the break-up of Gondwana. Marine Plain has also revealed four other species of cetaceans; a species of fish; and a diverse invertebrate fauna comprising molluscs, gastropods, marine diatoms, and the first Pliocene decapod crustacean from Antarctica.
Originally designated as Site of Special Scientific Interest No. 25 in 1987 (ATCM Recommendation XIV-5), but later in accordance with Resolution V (1996), the site of Marine Plain was redesignated and renumbered as Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No. 143.
- Notes:
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- "Image: 70 mm colour aerial photography 26 January 1979".
- "November 1993"
- Includes notes on verso entitled: Site of special scientific interest, no. 25 : Marine Plain, Mule Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, Princess Elizabeth Land : management plan.
- Includes on recto locality map.
- Orthophoto map of Marine Plain in Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. This is an area where many significant archeological and paleontological discoveries have been made. Relief shown by contours, and spot heights. Contour interval is 5 metres.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1979
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australia. Antarctic Division
- Related Records:
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- Until 2043 [Created/Published Date + 50 Years]
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1993
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