Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

The Gobbins, NE Coast.

[Site list for year 1987]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19870423/21 Date: 1987-04-23 GPS: 54.80100,-5.68900. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The aim of this visit was to characterise a steep rock site at the Gobbins. However, it was difficult to reach the base of the sheer cliffs from the shore, since they fall directly away into deep water. Therefore the steep rock face of a rock outcrop in a small bay immediately to the south of the Gobbins cliff was substituted for the cliff itself. The upper zone was not present on the outcrop , and was taken from the cliff at a point where access was relatively simple, just to the north of the bay. The bay was composed of igneous rock outcrops with boulders on the upper shore. There was a wide rock pool with a good algal diversity in shelter behind the rock outcrops in the bay, which was not sampled on this occasion.

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