Northern Royal Albatross Data Inventory for Gippsland Offshore Energy Area

Fifteen priority species, including the Northern Royal Albatross, were identified for a rapid information exploration related to the Gippsland offshore renewable energy zone. The project, conducted under NESP MaC 3.21, inventoried publicly-available occurrence data to support assessments by Australian environmental regulators. This specific record describes the data inventory for the Northern Royal Albatross (Diomedea sanfordi).

Use Cases

• Assess potential impacts of offshore renewable energy development on endangered seabird species based on the identified occurrence data.
• Identify data gaps and accessibility issues for regulatory processes as described in the project's four-step methodology.
• Support spatial planning for marine conservation by mapping species presence in relation to the Gippsland declaration area.

Strengths

• Focuses on 15 priority species identified by Australian government authorities DCCEEW and NOPSEMA.
• Explicitly targets a specific geographic area: the Gippsland declaration area and adjacent Bass Strait waters.
• Project methodology includes evaluating data utility for formal regulatory assessments.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified; the record shows a last updated date of 2026-06-17.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

A rapid exploration project identifying and evaluating datasets from public sources.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-17 01:45:36.922247; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Gippsland offshore renewable energy declaration area and adjacent Bass Strait, Australia.