Indicator: AAT-25 Annual total of fuel used by vehicles
Data
Monthly fuel used by vehicles - Casey
Source: Department of the Environment and Heritage 2006, Indicator 58 - Monthly total of fuel used by vehicles at Australian Antarctic Stations, viewed 4 Jul 2006, http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/soe/display_indicator.cfm?soe_id=58
Monthly fuel used by vehicles - Mawson
Source: Department of the Environment and Heritage 2006, Indicator 58 - Monthly total of fuel used by vehicles at Australian Antarctic Stations, viewed 4 Jul 2006, http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/soe/display_indicator.cfm?soe_id=58
Monthly fuel used by vehicles - Davis
Source: Department of the Environment and Heritage 2006, Indicator 58 - Monthly total of fuel used by vehicles at Australian Antarctic Stations, viewed 4 Jul 2006, http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/soe/display_indicator.cfm?soe_id=58
Monthly fuel used by vehicles - Macquarie Island
Source: Department of the Environment and Heritage 2006, Indicator 58 - Monthly total of fuel used by vehicles at Australian Antarctic Stations, viewed 4 Jul 2006, http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/soe/display_indicator.cfm?soe_id=58
What the data mean
The data shows an increase in fuel usage for Davis, Casey and Macquarie Island over the reporting period. All stations show more fuel usage over summer than winter reflecting the level of scientific activity during the warmer months.
Data Limitations
Nil known
Issues for which this is an indicator and why
Australian Antarctic Territory - Environment - Human Pressures on the environment
The amount of fuel used in Antarctica for vehicles is proportional to environmental impact due to the emission and potential impacts associated with the footprint of human activities.
Other indicators for this issue:
- AAT-17 Types and concentrations of long range pollutants from outside Antarctica reaching Antarctica
- AAT-18 Annual tourist ship visits and tourist numbers
- AAT-19 Annual catch in tonnes of marine species harvested in Australian Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters - legal and illegal
- AAT-20 Fishing by-catch numbers and/or weight taken as bycatch
- AAT-21 Station and ship person days
- AAT-22 Wastewater - biological oxygen demand of wastewater discharged
- AAT-23 Annual fuel usage of generator sets and boilers
- AAT-24 Annual incinerator fuel usage
- AAT-26 Annual total potable water consumption
- AAT-27 Volume of runoffs and pollutants/emissions from stations
- CO-16 Status of Australian fisheries
- CO-17 Change in species and trophic structure of fish species caught
- CO-19 Estimated tonnage taken by illegal fishing; estimated number of illegal boats, estimated number of individuals of threatened species taken
- CO-21 Non-target effects: Number and/or weight taken as bycatch, and change since introduction of exclusion devices
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