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Australian fur seal (Brown fur seal) colonies in Victorian marine waters and adjacent Tasmanian waters

Created 26/06/2025

Updated 26/06/2025

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This layer identifies the location of Australian fur seal haul-out sites and breeding colonies in Victoria's marine waters and adjacent Tasmanian waters. The Australian fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) is also known as the Brown fur seal, Cape fur seal and South African fur seal. The layer is a points coverage with the point location representing approximately the centre of the colony. Sites were identified from published field surveys of seals colonies in the Bass Strait region and from personal communications made by experts in the field.

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Title Australian fur seal (Brown fur seal) colonies in Victorian marine waters and adjacent Tasmanian waters
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/6b6a95c7-57ec-4bb1-b1a5-be85a0b37498
Remote Last Updated 26/05/2025
Contact Point
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
contact@dpc.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 29/01/2018
Geospatial Coverage Victoria
Data Portal Victoria Government

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This dataset was originally found on Victoria Government "Australian fur seal (Brown fur seal) colonies in Victorian marine waters and adjacent Tasmanian waters". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/australian-fur-seal-brown-fur-seal-colonies-in-victorian-marine-waters-and-adjacent-tasmanian-w