Biodiversity and degradation of estuaries in North-Western Tasmania: Detention River

Created 11/01/2026

Updated 11/01/2026

Water quality and biological data was collected from four tide-dominated river estuaries indicative of catchments with varying levels of human impacts to: 1) assess draft indicator levels for water quality, and 2) investigate biological indicators of estuarine health in NW Tasmania. The data represented by this record was collected in the Detention River.

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Title Biodiversity and degradation of estuaries in North-Western Tasmania: Detention River
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/d2c177f4-e809-444f-92eb-53cd9525b454
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
Christine.Crawford@utas.edu.au
Reference Period 15/11/2004 - 15/04/2005
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        145.44,
        -40.88
      ],
      [
        145.45,
        -40.88
      ],
      [
        145.45,
        -40.87
      ],
      [
        145.44,
        -40.87
      ],
      [
        145.44,
        -40.88
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Biodiversity and degradation of estuaries in North-Western Tasmania: Detention River". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/biodiversity-and-degradation-of-estuaries-in-north-western-tasmania-detention-river1