Great Sandy Marine Park Shorebird Roost Sites

Created 05/05/2025

Updated 05/05/2025

Provides geographical extents of the locations of shorebird roost sites in and around the Great Sandy Marine Park. These extents are current to November 2019. The data linked to each roost site was provided by Queensland Wader Study Group (QWSG). The same data is summarised over two different time periods. The summary 1995-2019 was provided to show the largest data set available. The summary 2012-2019 provides a more recent view while still including sufficient sites to be useful.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Great Sandy Marine Park Shorebird Roost Sites
Language English
Licence cc-by-4
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/dd899c97-fa55-46f4-9912-c58199bb55c1
Remote Last Updated 20/02/2023
Contact Point
Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation
Parkaccess@des.qld.gov.au
Reference Period 14/05/2020
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        96.0,
        -45.0
      ],
      [
        96.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        168.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        168.0,
        -45.0
      ],
      [
        96.0,
        -45.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Queensland Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Queensland Government "Great Sandy Marine Park Shorebird Roost Sites". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset/great-sandy-marine-park-shorebird-roost-sites