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Southern elephant seal moult wallow sites and weddell seal pupping areas in the Windmill Islands

Created 10/12/2015

Updated 11/08/2023

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This GIS dataset includes:

1 Point data representing southern elephant seal haulout sites as shown in Figure 1 of the paper J.van den Hoff, R.Davies and H.Burton, 'Origins, age composition and change in numbers of moulting southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina L.) in the Windmill Islands, Vincennes Bay, east Antarctica: 1988-2001', Wildlife Research vol 30 no 3 2003.

2 Polygon data representing some of the above sites. This data is based on field work by John van den Hoff, Australian Antarctic Division biologist, in 2000/01.

3 Polygon data representing two Weddell seal pupping sites in the Windmill Islands. This data is based on John van den Hoff's knowledge from field work and research.

The data has been formatted according to the SCAR Feature Catalogue.

Data that are part of this dataset have Dataset_id = 179 in the SCAR Feature Catalogue format. Dataset_id is an attribute in the attribute table.

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Title Southern elephant seal moult wallow sites and weddell seal pupping areas in the Windmill Islands
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e81e0953-a6ce-4d13-a189-e7ab09ff0572
Contact Point
Australian Antarctic Division
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 10/12/2015
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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      ],
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        110.7319,
        -66.4861
      ],
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        110.7319,
        -66.1931
      ],
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      ],
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      ]
    ]
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  "type": "Polygon"
}
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