THIS WEBPAGE IS A DRAFT/UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Normanby Island is part of the Franklin Islands to the south-east of Cairns. It has a fringing coral reef. We laid underwater transects and took aerial drone photographs on Sunday 29th November, 2020.
Our 40-foot (12 metre) boat, Kiama, about to anchor to the south west of Normanby Reef on 29th November 2020.
Table 1. Scale Profile, Normanby Island Reef
The position is relative to sea level at the time the photograph was taken in metres, so +120 metres is this height above the coral reef, and -1 metres (to be added) is a photograph taken at this depth below the water.
| Position | @Crest | @Lagoon |
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| Date | 29 Nov 2020 | 29 Nov 2020 |
| Time | 12:09 | 12:06 |
| Latitude | 17.211845° S | 17.212752° S |
| Longitude | 146.075588° E | 146.076253° E |
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Table 2. Horizontal Photographic Transects at Normanby
Date: 29 Nov 2020
Time: 10:55-11:21
Starting location: (° S, ° E)
Habitat:
| Depth | Rep | @1m | @2m | @3m | @4m | @5m | @6m | @7m | @8m | @9m | @10m |
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| 5 m | 1 |  |
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| 5 m | 2 |  |
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| 5 m | 3 |  |
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Underwater transect photographs by Shaun Frichette, drone aerials by Stuart Ireland.
