IMOS - National Mooring Network - Queensland and Northern Australia Heron Island North (GBRHIN) Mooring

Oxygen Particulate matter Sea Surface Salinity Sea Surface Temperature Surface Currents Phytoplankton biomass and diversity Hard coral cover and composition

The QLD Heron Island North Mooring (IMOS Platform Code: GBRHIN) is one of three moorings near Heron Island, and one of five moorings offshore from Gladstone in Queensland, Australia at Latitude: -23.383, Longitude: 151.986 (approximate, adjustments with each deployment). This mooring was discontinued and removed in March 2013.

The mooring’s sensors are adjusted and potentially changed with each deployment, below is an example from 2009:

SBE19Plus CTD
RDI Workhorse ADCP
4x SBE39 temperature recorders

Data and resources

Processed data files

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Website of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)

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Website of the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN)

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Website of the ANMN Queensland and Northern Australia Sub-Facility

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Additional information

Temporal extent	2007-09-12 – 2013-03-16
Date (creation)	2009-03-10
Status	completed
Update frequency	continual
Metadata language	en
License	Data, products and services from IMOS are provided "as is" without any warranty as to fitness for a particular purpose.
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-05
Created	2026-11-05
API	package_show