Tin Can Bay Coastal Station Data 1973

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This dataset contains oceanographic data collected at a 4 m - 23 m coastal station off Tin Can Bay Queensland (lat. 25 deg. 58 min. S, long. 153 deg. 1 min. E) in December 1973. Station set up under the CSIRO coastal monitoring program in the 1970s and was sampled approximately monthly for temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, phosphate and nitrate. The data are stored on-line as part of the CMR hydrology archive in Hobart. Additional copies of the data are deposited with the NODC data archive (World Data Centre-A) in the U.S.A., and details of relevant data files can be viewed via their website by requesting the file inventory for this coastal station which is NODC platform code "09TC".

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Tin Can Bay Coastal Station Data 1973
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a2692280-1dae-4dee-ab62-5a5fcacc3a88
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 03/12/1973 - 04/12/1973
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        153.0,
        -26.0
      ],
      [
        153.5,
        -26.0
      ],
      [
        153.5,
        -25.5
      ],
      [
        153.0,
        -25.5
      ],
      [
        153.0,
        -26.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Tin Can Bay Coastal Station Data 1973". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/tin-can-bay-coastal-station-data-19731