Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Ballyquintin Point, Strangford Lough.

[Site list for year 1986]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860410/21 Date: 1986-04-10 GPS: 54.32983,-5.50300. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: A moderately exposed shore situated on a headland between the open coast and Strangford Narrows. Consists of extensive fissured slate rock ridges with small and medium boulders on coarse sand and gravel between. The shore is backed largely by glacial deposited shingle beaches on which strand occurs (high spring tides). This backing becomes more extensive towards the point. Grassland used from grazing backs the shore. Much of the intertidal site consists of fissured ridges with boulders between although the lower shore is dominated by boulders. Many sub habitats occur, within ridges, including crevices, overhangs, rockpools and algal cover. The open coast side of the headland has a different exposure and tidal regime to the Strangford Narrows side, and tends to have a different community structure. The zonation is fucoid dominated with Ascophyllum in the more sheltered boulder areas behind the ridges. A large supralittoral lichen zone occurs with rockpools dominated by Ulva (originally recorded as Enteromorpha).

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