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Australian Antarctic Territory
2016 Report Content The AAT comprises an area of approximately 5.9 million km 2 , and its coastline ...
Australian Antarctic Territory
Antarctica The AAT ( Figure ANT1 ) comprises an area of approximately 5.9 million km 2 , ... confrontation preserve Australia’s sovereignty over the AAT, including our sovereign rights over adjacent offshore areas support a ...
Governance
2016 Report Content... and management of the Antarctic region, including the AAT. These objectives are embodied in Australian legislation and are given ... and management of the Antarctic region, including the AAT. These objectives are embodied in Australian legislation and are given ...
Pressures affecting the Antarctic environment 2016
2016 At a glance... the current state of the environment. The focus is on the AAT, because this is where Australia’s activities are centred, although ... a limited number of sites are monitored regularly in the AAT, some results are representative of other areas in East Antarctica with ...
Effectiveness of Antarctic management 2016
2016 At a glance... operate in East Antarctica, including within the AAT. Tourism, including by Australian tour operators, occurs mostly in the ...
Heritage values
2016 Report Content... (ASMA). Since 2015, 41 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in the AAT have been identified by BirdLife International as important breeding sites ... sites associated with cultural heritage can be found in the AAT, at Heard Island and McDonald Islands, and at Macquarie Island in the ...
Antarctic governance
2016 Report Content... occupied stations in the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) ( Figure ANT1 ). In 2015, Belarus began construction of a station within the AAT near Russia’s Molodyozhnaya Station. Australia was instrumental in the ...
Pressures on Antarctic historic heritage
2016 Report Content... The Mawson’s Huts Historic Site at Cape Denison in the AAT is Australia’s oldest and arguably most significant historic heritage ...
Management achievements
2016 Report Content... These forums were used to advance the protection of the AAT environment. Specifically, Australia: convened a workshop to engage ... distributed maps of wildlife concentrations in the AAT to enable other countries’ aviation contractors to adopt appropriate ...
State and trends of listed or specially protected sites in Antarctica and the subantarctic that are managed by Australia
2016, 2011 Assessment summary... means that all colonies of southern giant petrels in the AAT are now protected Year(s): 2016 3 Stable Confidence (in grade): Limited ...
The living environment: Vertebrate populations
2016 Report Content... large-scale fishing operations in the Southern Ocean off the AAT in the mid-1960s. Marbled rock cod (
Notothenia rossii
) was caught ... 18 species in the penguin family, 7 live and breed in the AAT and Macquarie Island, but only emperor (
Aptenodytes forsteri
) and ...
Effectiveness of Antarctic environmental management
2016, 2011 Assessment summary... an overarching policy framework for all activities in the AAT and the subantarctic islands. This policy is consistent with Australia’s ...
The physical environment: The cryosphere
2016 Report Content... ice can be an aid or impediment to station resupply in the AAT, depending on its extent, duration and thickness. Sea ice in the Arctic and ... et al. 2012 ). Across East Antarctica (within the AAT), a small increasing trend in sea ice extent ( Cavalieri & Parkinson 2012 ) ...
Australian Antarctic Territory
2011 Report Content... territory. Today, the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT; Figure 7.1 ) comprises all land and islands south of 60°S and extends ... the French Territory of Adélie Land (136°–142°E). The AAT covers some 5.95 million km 2 with ice shelves and ice tongues comprising ...
In this chapter
2011 Report Content... the current state of the environment. The focus is on the AAT, because this is where Australia's activities are centred-although certain ... the current state of the environment. The focus is on the AAT, because this is where Australia's activities are centred-although certain ...
Governance
2011 Report Content... and management of the Antarctic region, including the AAT, as do a number of pieces of legislation within Australia. Other ... into Australian domestic law. The legal regime for the AAT is established in the
Australian Antarctic Territory Act 1954
. The ...
7 Antarctic environment | 4 Effectiveness of Antarctic management
2011 At a glance... also operate in East Antarctica, including within the AAT. Tourism, including by Australian tour operators, occurs mostly in the ...
Pressures on the marine environment
2011 Report Content... of interest from fishing companies to fish for krill off the AAT. In 1996 and 2006, the Australian Antarctic Division conducted two major ... catch limits on the krill fishery off most of the AAT (80°E to 150°E). Australian fishing efforts for Patagonian toothfish and, ...
Heritage values
2011 Report Content... sites associated with cultural heritage can be found in the AAT, on Heard Island and Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean. There are four ... of other nations that established research stations in the AAT after World War 2. Any conservation work on the historic sites is assessed ...
Management achievements
2011 Report Content... to establish a new research station at Dome A, within the AAT. Australia led a similar review in 2011 of the Republic of Korea's proposal ...
The station environment
2011 Report Content... assessment summary Contaminated sites and pollution In the AAT, contaminated sites are largely a relic of the past (before the Madrid ...
The living environment
2011 Report Content... large-scale fishing operations in the Southern Ocean off the AAT in the mid-1960s. Marbled rock cod (
Notothenia rossii
) was caught ... 18 species in the penguin family, 7 live and breed in the AAT at Macquarie Island, but only emperor penguins (
Aptenodytes forsteri
...
