Adelie penguin occupancy survey of Welch Island 2014

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

Adelie colony boundaries at Welch Island were mapped on the 30 Nov 2014 to provide a boundary for the pole camera survey. Subcolonies were mapped by circumnavigating the perimeter on foot while carrying a Garmin GPS (Legend and Etrex30) to record the track. When mapping the perimeter of the subcolonies a buffer distance of approximately 2.5 meters was maintained between the mapper and the breeding birds. This buffer distance was reduced by .5m to between 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 Welch Island 2014
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/93ab3511-5386-4ca7-a835-ab75a5cca46b
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 30/11/2014 - 30/11/2014
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        62.927,
        -67.561
      ],
      [
        62.929,
        -67.561
      ],
      [
        62.929,
        -67.559
      ],
      [
        62.927,
        -67.559
      ],
      [
        62.927,
        -67.561
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Adelie penguin occupancy survey of Welch Island 2014". 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-welch-island-2014