Layer Upon Layer Upon Layer – Interpreting the Historic Shipwreck Sites of Kenn Reefs, Coral Sea, through GIS
Author(s): Paul Hundley; Irini A Malliaros
Year: 2018
Summary
In 2017, maritime archaeologists from the Silentworld Foundation and Australian National Maritime Museum conducted a survey of historic shipwreck sites at Kenn Reefs, Australian Coral Sea Territory. The acquired data was utilised to build a comprehensive Geographic Information System (GIS) project. Maritime archaeology was born of, and is continually improved by, technological advances. GIS has become yet another indispensible tool to the modern maritime archaeologist - integrating data ranging from GPS, satellite/aerial imagery, bathymetric surveys, contour lines and more, has never been easier. Physical recording of features on site is still required but there is much to be gained from combining layers of information (including scans of physical plans) to build an overall site picture. Presented here is a case study of the benefits (and downfalls) of GIS work as applied to the Kenn Reefs shipwreck survey, including the use of the results as a predictive model for future work.
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Layer Upon Layer Upon Layer – Interpreting the Historic Shipwreck Sites of Kenn Reefs, Coral Sea, through GIS. Paul Hundley, Irini A Malliaros. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441529)
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Keywords
General
Coral Sea
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Gis
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Maritime Archaeology
Spatial Coverage
min long: 112.952; min lat: -43.648 ; max long: 153.606; max lat: -10.71 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 702