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Adelie penguin occupancy survey of Bechervaise Island and Kista Rock, 2013

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

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Six colonies with breeding Adelie colonies were mapped this season on Kista Island. On Bechervaise Island subcolonies C and R were not mapped and so are missing from the final layer, but birds were present in these subcolonies. Subcolonies were mapped by circumnavigating the perimeter of sub-colonies on foot while carrying a Garmin GPS (Legend Cx) to log the track taken. The person walking the perimeter of the sub-colonies maintained a buffer distance of approximately 2.5m between themselves and the breeding birds along the sub-colony boundary. This buffer distance was reduced to approximately 2m in the final shapefiles. Please refer to the Seabird Conservation Team Data Sharing Policy for use, acknowledgement and availability of data prior to downloading data.

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Title Adelie penguin occupancy survey of Bechervaise Island and Kista Rock, 2013
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/d8ee2c1f-3bbe-400c-a758-fe94e91b17a4
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/12/2013 - 03/12/2013
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        62.806,
        -69.7327
      ],
      [
        74.3798,
        -69.7327
      ],
      [
        74.3798,
        -67.586
      ],
      [
        62.806,
        -67.586
      ],
      [
        62.806,
        -69.7327
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Adelie penguin occupancy survey of Bechervaise Island and Kista Rock, 2013". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/adelie-penguin-occupancy-survey-of-bechervaise-island-and-kista-rock-2013