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Torres Strait Inhabited Islands (TSRA)

This dataset shows the point location of communities on Torres Strait Islands. There are 18 Islands in the Torres Strait and 19 Communities. St Pauls and Kubin villages are both located on Moa Island. Each point includes an URL attribute pointing to the community pages on the TSRA website. The Island Communities are:


Boigu Island, Warraber Island, Ugar Island, Thursday Island, Saibai Island, Poruma Island, Prince of Wales Island, Mer Island, Masig Island, Mabuiag Island, Iama Island, Horn Island, Hammond Island, Erub Island, Dauan Island, Badu Island, St Pauls, Moa Island, Kubin, Moa Island


The dataset is a point shapefile, created in ArcGIS Version 10.0.


Data Dictionary:


- URL: URL to the community page for the island on the TSRA website.

- Region: Region within Torres Strait (Northern islands, Central islands, Eastern islands, Southern islands, Western islands) from the Torres Strait Island Regional Council.

- Pop2011: Population of each island from the 2011 census.


Data Location:


This dataset is filed in the eAtlas enduring data repository at: data\TSRA\TS_TSRA_Inhabited-Islands_2014


Change Log:


- V2 21-03-2016 (Eric Lawrey, AIMS): Added Regions and population statistics.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Publication)
2015-01-01
Date (Revision)
2016-03-21T00:00:00
Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Point of contact Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA) Stewart, Melanie Voice facsimile Level 4, 38 Sheridan St Cairns Queensland 4870 Australia Melanie.STEWART@tsra.gov.au
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
100000
Topic category
  • Location

Extent

Extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords (Theme)
  • Human Dimensions | Population | Population Distribution
  • marine

Resource constraints

Linkage
http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/au/88x31.png

License Graphic

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Website
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/

License Text

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

OnLine resource
eAtlas Web Mapping Service (WMS) (AIMS)

OnLine resource
tsra:TS_TSRA_Inhabited-Islands_2014

OnLine resource
Inhabited islands shapefile V2 [zip 4 kB]

OnLine resource
Torres Strait Regional Council (General location and Map)

OnLine resource
2011 Census Quick Stats for Torres Strait.

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4283

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/b4ddc121-0edf-42de-b2ec-fcfb044578ca

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Point of contact Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA) Stewart, Melanie Voice facsimile Level 4, 38 Sheridan St Cairns Queensland 4870 Australia Melanie.STEWART@tsra.gov.au
Parent metadata

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://eatlas.org.au/data/uuid/b4ddc121-0edf-42de-b2ec-fcfb044578ca

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2016-08-02T15:41:42
Date info (Revision)
2023-09-18T07:58:19

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

Overviews

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Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

Human Dimensions | Population | Population Distribution marine

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