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Murray-Darling Basin Commission

Node type

Statutory authority

Node description

Spatial metadata collection for the Murray-Darling Basin region.

Z39.50 connection details

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• Server hostname: 203.13.43.212
• Server port: 5548
• Repository name: mdbcprod

Bounding coordinates

The outer geographic extent of the whole document collection ...

• North bounding coordinate: -24.64
• South bounding coordinate: -37.73
• East bounding coordinate: 152.46
• West bounding coordinate: 138.56

Top search terms

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murray,darling,water,hydrogeology,soil,geology,orthophotography,landsat,wetlands,vegetation

References

• Home: http://www.mdbc.gov.au
• About metadata: http://www.mdbc.gov.au/maps_and_spatial_data#asdd

Description of the organisation/jurisdiction

The Murray-Darling Basin Commission is the executive arm of the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council and is responsible for: (1) managing the River Murray and the Menindee Lakes system of the lower Darling River, and (2) advising the Ministerial Council on matters related to the use of the water, land and other environmental resources of the Murray-Darling Basin. The Commission is an autonomous organisation equally responsible to the governments represented on the Ministerial Council as well as to the Council itself. It is not a government department nor a statutory body of any individual government. The Murray-Darling Basin is the catchment for the Murray and Darling Rivers and their many tributaries. Extending from north of Roma in Queensland to Goolwa in South Australia and including three quarters of New South Wales and half of Victoria, it is the heartland and the economic powerhouse of rural Australia. It extends across one-seventh of the continent and has a population of nearly two million people. Another million people outside the region depend heavily upon its resources.

Contact details

• Contact organisation: Murray-Darling Basin Commission
• Postal address: GPO Box 409
• City: CANBERRA
• State: ACT
• Postal code: 2602
• Electronic mail: gis@mdbc.gov.au
• Telephone: 02 6279 0100
• Facsimile: 02 6230 7579

Metadata date

2008-09-01