Australian Antarctic Heritage Funding Indicator, 2001

The Australian Antarctic Territory and Heard and McDonald Islands are covered by this indicator, which tracked the level of funding provided by the Australian Antarctic Division for heritage expertise. It was designed as an annual response indicator to measure governmental commitment to preserving cultural heritage in Antarctica. The dataset is considered obsolete and was last updated on December 31, 2001.

Use Cases

• Analyzing historical government resource allocation for Antarctic heritage management based on the described funding indicator.
• Tracking governmental commitment to cultural heritage issues over time based on the annual reporting frequency mentioned.
• Studying the relationship between funding responses and heritage conservation pressures in the Antarctic system.

Strengths

• Indicator definition and monitoring strategy are clearly documented in the description.
• Spatial scale is explicitly defined for the Australian Antarctic Territory and associated islands.
• Designed for annual reporting, suggesting a structured time-series intent.

Limitations

• Last updated 2001-12-31 23:59:59.999000; freshness should be verified.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count, column definitions, and sample data are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

AU_AADC (Australian Antarctic Division)

Collection Method

Information collated by the AAD's Environmental Management and Audit Unit from structured budget accounts.

Time Range

Historical, up to 2001.

Freshness

Annual reports (historical). Last updated date: 2001-12-31 23:59:59.999000.

Geography

Australian Antarctic Territory, the whole of Antarctica, and the Territory of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands.