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Metadata : Northern Territory Shipwreck Database |

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Metadata Details:
Name:AS/NZS ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata, ANZLIC Metadata Profile
Version:1.0
Date Metadata Extracted:2025-05-08
Date Metadata Last Updated:2007-12-04
Current URL (HTML format) : http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=406B86426E0F39ACE040CD9B21446E03
Current URL (XML format) : http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=xml&metadata_id=406B86426E0F39ACE040CD9B21446E03
Citation
ANZLIC Identifier:406B86426E0F39ACE040CD9B21446E03
Title: Northern Territory Shipwreck Database
Citation Date:1990-11-01
Date Type:creation
Custodian:Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade
Description
Northern Territory shipwreck database (NTSD) contains information relating to all known shipwrecks in Northen Territory waters, including portions of the Arafura and Timor Seas, Gulf of Carpentaria and the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf. The database also contains submerged aircraft wrecks such as Catalina flying boats from WWII.
- transportation
Bounding Coordinates:
- North Bounding Coordinate:-8.959724
- South Bounding Coordinate:-16.812876
- East Bounding Coordinate:138.205826
- West Bounding Coordinate:128.523087
Dataset Status
Dataset ID:
Language:English
Character Set: Latin 1
Progress:onGoing
Maintenance and Update Frequency:continual
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Data Currency End Date:
Access Constraint:Data avaliable for Internal Government use.
Data can be used externally but custodian must be contacted first to arrange access and a data licence agreement.
Copyright must be acknowledged to the "Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory".
Data Quality
Lineage:This data is collected and collated from historical sources (i.e. newspapers, journals, diaries, letters etc.), field survey and from information provided by the public (i.e. fishers, divers and recreational boating).
Positional Accuracy:The locational data is dependent on the quality of the original source and can vary accordingly (i.e. historical newspaper source is generally less accurate than a divers GPS record or a field survey).
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Contacts
Name Organisation Position Role Phone Fax Gavin Dally Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade Senior Collections Manager, Natural Sciences, MAGNT custodian 08 8999 8247 08 8999 8289 gavin.dally@nt.gov.au
Data Dictionary
No data dictionary defined for this dataset
Supplementary Information
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