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Peat-forming bogs and fens of the Snowy Mountains

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 20/10/2025

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Bogs and fens are common in the Snowy Mountains of south-eastern New South Wales (NSW). This study provides the first comprehensive mapping of the region’s peatlands. It has been completed by using aerial photography and satellite imagery, supplemented by field checking, to create a spatial database of the mires. The boundaries generally reflect the situation in February 2003, immediately after a major fire prompted the collection of high resolution aerial photographs of the peatlands. The surface extent of the peatlands is combined with data on the depth of peat and its carbon content to estimate peat volumes and carbon storage. The accumulation history of the mires provided by a 30-year program of coring and radiocarbon dating was used to estimate the long term rates of peat accumulation and carbon sequestration. Mapping done by Rachel Nanson and Geoffrey Hope, ANU.

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Title Peat-forming bogs and fens of the Snowy Mountains
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/cf53e7e4-ef3a-4c24-a670-446d46fe8ea6
Remote Last Updated 08/10/2025
Contact Point
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
?datansw@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 02/01/2003 - 30/06/2006
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Peat-forming bogs and fens of the Snowy Mountains". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-peat-forming-bogs-and-fens-of-the-snowy-mountains