Seafloor Bathymetry Flythrough of Gifford Marine Park

An MP4 flythrough movie visualizes the bathymetry of Gifford Marine Park, located 700 km east of Brisbane. The data was collected on two surveys by Geoscience Australia, in 2007 and 2017 in collaboration with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. The park features two large, flat-topped seamounts spanning over 3 km of ocean depths.

Use Cases

• Visualizing seamount topography and sediment fields based on the bathymetric flythrough
• Studying mass movement scars and steep cliffs around seamounts based on the described features
• Analyzing potential habitat roles for cetaceans like humpback whales based on the park's described characteristics
• Investigating Miocene volcanism and hotspot migration along the Lord Howe Rise chain based on the geological context

Strengths

• Bathymetry data collected over two surveys spanning a decade (2007 and 2017)
• Focuses on a specific marine park with detailed geological and ecological context described
• Visualized as a flythrough movie, likely providing an intuitive 3D representation

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• The dataset is a single video file; quantitative analysis may require extracting underlying data

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Bathymetry data collected via marine surveys.

Time Range

Survey data from 2007 and 2017.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-16 15:29:31.320528; freshness should be verified

Geography

Gifford Marine Park, 700 km east of Brisbane, Australia, on the Lord Howe Rise.