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Animal Tracking at Heard Island 2003/2004 - ARGOS data

Created 17/11/2025

Updated 17/11/2025

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A major goal of a research expedition by the Australian Antarctic Division over the summer of (2003/04) in the Southern Ocean off Heard Island was to answer some of the questions needed to determine what level of exploitation of Southern Ocean fisheries is sustainable. The use of novel equipment, cutting edge technology and some adept logistical co-ordination allowed the Aurora Australis, on the Southern Ocean, to catch the prey of the predators of Heard Island. This work was accomplished by placing satellite trackers on animals at Heard Island, and then, using the ARGOS system, monitoring their activities in the Southern Ocean around the island. The Aurora Australis assisted in the monitoring and tracking of the animals by searching the areas the animals were foraging for prey species. The animals tracked in this experiment were: Light-mantled sooty albatrosses black-browed albatrosses king penguins macaroni penguins Antarctic fur seals The columns in this data file are: individual_id - the identifier of the individual animal species - the species name of that animal pttid - the identifier of the PTT tracker deployed on that animal deployment_longitude - the longitude at which the tracker was deployed deployment_latitude - the latitude at which the tracker was deployed observation_date - the date (ISO8601 format) of the position observation year, month, day, time, time_zone - as per the observation_date, but in separate columns locationclass - the ARGOS location class of the position (see http://www.argos-system.org/manual/3-location/34_location_classes.htm; value -3 corresponds to a "Z" class, value -2 to "B", value -1 to "A") latitude - the latitude of the position observation longitude - the longitude of the position observation

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Title Animal Tracking at Heard Island 2003/2004 - ARGOS data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a0713396-39cd-40f2-8549-dd0b0891fa11
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 15/12/2003 - 13/02/2004
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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        68.0,
        -56.0
      ],
      [
        80.0,
        -56.0
      ],
      [
        80.0,
        -50.0
      ],
      [
        68.0,
        -50.0
      ],
      [
        68.0,
        -56.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Animal Tracking at Heard Island 2003/2004 - ARGOS data". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/animal-tracking-at-heard-island-2003-2004-argos-data1