scholarly journals Changing use of Lizard Island over the past 4000 years and implications for understanding Indigenous offshore island use on the Great Barrier Reef

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 43-109
Author(s):  
Ariana B.J. Lambrides ◽  
Ian J. McNiven ◽  
Samantha J. Aird ◽  
Kelsey A. Lowe ◽  
Patrick Moss ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Offshore Island ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Coral Sea ◽  
Lizard Island ◽  
Reef Islands ◽  
Torres Strait

Archaeological records documenting the timing and use of northern Great Barrier Reef offshore islands by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout the Holocene are limited when compared to the central and southern extents of the region. Excavations on Lizard Island, located 33 km from Cape Flattery on the mainland, provide high resolution evidence for periodic, yet sustained offshore island use over the past 4000 years, with focused exploitation of diverse marine resources and manufacture of quartz artefacts. An increase in island use occurs from around 2250 years ago, at a time when a hiatus or reduction in offshore island occupation has been documented for other Great Barrier Reef islands, but concurrent with demographic expansion across Torres Strait to the north. Archaeological evidence from Lizard Island provides a previously undocumented occupation pattern associated with Great Barrier Reef late Holocene island use. We suggest this trajectory of Lizard Island occupation was underwritten by its place within the Coral Sea Cultural Interaction Sphere, which may highlight its significance both locally and regionally across this vast seascape.

scholarly journals New and little-known gnathiid isopod crustaceans (Cymothoida) from the northern Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3380 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JÖRUNDUR SVAVARSSON ◽  
NIEL L. BRUCE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Island Region ◽  
Coral Sea ◽  
Lizard Island ◽  
Island Group ◽  
Gnathiid Isopod

Ten species of Gnathiidae (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoida) including six new species, are reported from Lizard Islandand nearby reefs, northern Great Barrier Reef and reefs of the Coral Sea (Chesterfield Reefs, Mellish Reef and MarionReef): Gnathia wistari sp. nov. (Lizard Island region and Capricorn Group, southern Great Barrier Reef), Gnathia coral-maris sp. nov. (Mellish Reef), Gnathia varanus sp. nov. (Lizard Island group), Gnathia marionis sp. nov. (Marion Reef),Gnathia hamletgast sp. nov. (Chesterfield Reefs) and Elaphognathia australis sp. nov. (Chesterfield Reefs). New locali-ties are reported for four other species: Gnathia aureamaculosa Ferreira and Smit, 2009 and Gnathia masca Farquharsonand Smit, 2012 from Lizard Island and nearby reefs; Gnathia falcipenis Holdich and Harrison, 1980 and Gnathia variobranchia Holdich and Harrison, 1980 from Lizard Island, Wistari Reef, Heron Island and Chesterfields Reefs.

Torres Strait and the Inner Route

1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
J. H. S. Osborn
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Outer Limit ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
Alternative Routes ◽  
Coral Reef System

The north-east coast of Australia is fronted by the world's longest coral reef system, which stretches in a north/south direction between latitudes 9° and 24° South. Although its outer limit is at distances of between 20 and 120 miles from the coast the enclosed waters are relatively shallow and contain many islands, detached reefs and shoals. The shipping lane between the coast and the Great Barrier Reef is known as the Inner Route. Torres Strait, its northern entrance, although extensive is shallow throughout and encumbered by reefs and islands to such an extent that only one route through it has been lit. The alternative routes are shallow or tortuous.

Currents and Water Properties in the North-central Great Barrier Reef during the South-east Trade Wind Season

1978 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 345 ◽  
Author(s):  
GR Cresswell ◽  
MA Greig
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Ocean Circulation ◽  
Trade Wind ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
North Central ◽  
Low Salinity ◽  
The North ◽  
Coral Sea ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
A Site

Current meter recordings were made for 18 days at a site near Low Islets in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon and at another site in the nearby Trinity Opening. Hydrological data were collected inside the Barrier Reef and in the adjacent Coral Sea at the start of the experiment. The current records were analysed to gauge the effects of tides, wind, and open ocean circulation features. The lagoon flow was northward with a slight modulation due to the tides. The flow was reduced for several days at a time when there was enhanced eastward flow through Trinity Opening and out to the Coral Sea. The relatively low salinity, cool water in the lagoon is believed to have come from farther south and to have been diluted en route by river runoff.

Coral Sea Cultural Interaction Sphere

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian J. McNiven
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Exchange Networks ◽  
The Past ◽  
Coral Sea ◽  
Torres Strait

Cultural interactions between Aboriginal peoples of northeastern Australia and Melanesian peoples of southern New Guinea have caught the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists since the nineteenth century. Moving away from older models of one-way diffusion of so-called advanced cultural traits from New Guinea to mainland Australia via Torres Strait, this article elaborates the concept of the Coral Sea Cultural Interaction Sphere (CSCIS) as a framework to investigate two-way interactions, gene flow, and object movements across Torres Strait. The CSCIS centres on a series of ethnographically known, canoe-voyaging, and long-distance maritime exchange networks that linked communities over a distance of 2000 km along the south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea and the northeast coast of Australia. Archaeological evidence for temporal changes in the geographical spread of pottery and obsidian use indicates that the CSCIS was historically dynamic, with numerous reconfigurations over the past 3000 years. The CSCIS developed as the confluence of major cultural changes and demographic expansions that took place in northeastern Australia and southern mainland Papua New Guinea.

Late Quaternary sea-surface temperatures in the western Coral Sea: Implications for the growth of the Australian Great Barrier Reef

Geology ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 677-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.T. Lawrence ◽  
T.D. Herbert
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Planktonic Foraminifera ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Sea Surface Temperatures ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
The Past ◽  
Diagenetic Alteration ◽  
Coral Sea ◽  
Surface Temperatures

Abstract Recent chronostratigraphic evidence suggests that the central Australian Great Barrier Reef formed within the past 780 k.y. Periplatform sediments of the same age recovered from the western Coral Sea record a progressive decrease in the δ18O of planktonic foraminifera to the present. Several investigators have proposed that this trend represents an appreciable late Pleistocene warming (∼4 °C) of ocean surface temperatures, which they posit catalyzed the growth of the Great Barrier Reef. Contrary to this hypothesis, we demonstrate using alkenone paleothermometry (\batchmode \documentclass[fleqn,10pt,legalpaper]{article} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amsmath} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \(U_{37}^{k{^\prime}}\) \end{document}) on sediments from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 820 that sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) in the western Coral Sea changed by ∼1.5 °C or less during the past ∼800 k.y. If the central Great Barrier Reef rose in the late Quaternary, it was therefore not due to a warming of SSTs. We explore whether a major moisture balance change and/or diagenetic alteration of calcareous microfossils can explain the higher δ18O values observed at depth in the planktonic δ18O record at ODP Site 820. Our results suggest that diagenesis provides a large isotopic overprint.

Review of Australian species of Plectranthias Bleeker and Selenanthias Tanaka (Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiadinae), with descriptions of four new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4918 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-116
Author(s):  
ANTHONY C. GILL ◽  
JOHN J. POGONOSKI ◽  
GLENN I. MOORE ◽  
JEFFREY W. JOHNSON
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Reef Coral ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Christmas Island ◽  
Lord Howe Island ◽  
Coral Sea ◽  
Tasman Sea ◽  
Arafura Sea

Australian species of the anthiadine genera Plectranthias and Selenanthias are reviewed. Twenty-two species of Plectranthias and two species of Selenanthias are recorded from Australian waters: Plectranthias sp. 1 from a seamount north of Middleton Reef and Norfolk Ridge, Tasman Sea; P. alleni Randall from off southwest Western Australia; P. azumanus (Jordan & Richardson) from off southwest Western Australia; P. bennetti Allen & Walsh from Holmes Reef, Coral Sea; P. cruentus Gill & Roberts from Lord Howe Island, and possibly off Stradbroke Island, Queensland; P. ferrugineus n. sp. from the North West Shelf and Arafura Sea; P. fourmanoiri Randall from Christmas Island and Holmes Reef, Coral Sea; P. grahami n. sp. from off central New South Wales, Tasman Sea; P. inermis Randall from Christmas Island; P. japonicus (Steindachner) from the Arafura Sea and North West Shelf; P. kamii Randall from the Coral Sea, Lord Howe Island and Christmas Island; P. lasti Randall & Hoese from the North West Shelf and off Marion Reef, Queensland; P. longimanus (Weber) from the Timor Sea, Great Barrier Reef, Coral Sea and southern Queensland; P. maculicauda (Regan) from southeastern Australia; P. mcgroutheri n. sp. from the North West Shelf; P. megalophthalmus Fourmanoir & Randall from northeast of the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland; P. melanesius Randall from southeastern Queensland and a seamount north of Middleton Reef; P. moretonensis n. sp. from off Stradbroke Island, Queensland; P. nanus Randall from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island, Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea; P. retrofasciatus Fourmanoir & Randall from the Great Barrier Reef; P. robertsi Randall & Hoese from off Queensland, Coral Sea; P. winniensis (Tyler) from the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea; Selenanthias analis Tanaka from the North West Shelf and Arafura Sea; and S. barroi (Fourmanoir) from west of Lihou Reef, Coral Sea. Five of the species represent new records for Australia: P. azumanus, P. kamii, P. megalophthalmus, P. melanesius and S. barroi. Previous records of P. megalophthalmus from the North West Shelf are based on misidentified specimens of P. lasti. Records of P. wheeleri from the North West Shelf are based on specimens here identified as P. mcgroutheri n. sp. A record of P. yamakawai Yoshino from Christmas Island is based on a misidentified specimen of P. kamii. Plectranthias retrofasciatus was previously recorded from the Great Barrier Reef as P. pallidus Randall & Hoese, here shown to be a junior synonym of P. retrofasciatus. Video-based records of P. kelloggi from the Great Barrier Reef appear to be based on P. retrofasciatus. Identification keys, diagnoses, character summaries, photographs and Australian distribution information are presented for all species. Full descriptions are provided for the new species and for those newly recorded from Australia. 

­Redescription and distributional range extension of the Speckled Siphonfish, Siphamia guttulata (Pisces: Apogonidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4766 (2) ◽  
pp. 377-388
Author(s):  
JOHN J. POGONOSKI ◽  
OFER GON ◽  
SHARON A. APPLEYARD
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
The North ◽  
Coi Barcoding ◽  
Fish Collection ◽  
Unidentified Species ◽  
Torres Strait

During seabed biodiversity surveys between 2003 and 2005 from the Torres Strait (Papua New Guinea) to the southern Great Barrier Reef (Queensland), hundreds of Siphamia specimens were collected. After Gon & Allen’s (2012) revision allowed greater interrogation of the Siphamia species present, a re-examination of preserved and frozen Siphamia specimens at the CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) was warranted. The material was re-identified as four commonly collected species (S. cuneiceps, S. roseigaster, S. tubifer, and S. tubulata) and a fifth unidentified species that appeared to key to S. guttulata, previously known only from the type locality. Further detailed investigations including an analysis of meristic, morphometric and COI barcoding data confirmed the identity of S. guttulata from almost the entire length of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, from the Torres Strait in the north to the Northumberland Islands Group in the south. This study provides a redescription of Siphamia guttulata and highlights the importance of re-assessing the taxonomic status of museum material after revisionary studies. 

scholarly journals Wandinidae

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2260 (1) ◽  
pp. 927-930
Author(s):  
J. K. LOWRY ◽  
H. E. STODDART
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Living Coral ◽  
Tree Island ◽  
Lizard Island

One species of wandinid amphipod is reported from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Wandin griffini Lowry & Stoddart is known from Lizard Island, One Tree Island and reefs on the Outer Barrier, living among rubble usually at the base of living coral. The species is rare in this habitat.

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