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Elephant and Weddell Tags at Macca, Heard and Vestfold
Description:	Tagging records and resights from Elephant Seals at Macquarie Island (1950-65 and 1980 to present), Heard Island (1949-1955), Weddell seals in the Vestfold Hills (1973 to present), and Weddell seals at Casey (2008 to present)
Navigation:	Australian Antarctic Data Centre  »  Observational data
Application Group:	Biodiversity
Links to:	Home Page
Development Status:	In production
Who's responsible:	Proponet: John van den Hoff Developers: Miles Jordan Development Group: AADC
Languages used:	Cold Fusion
Relevant Programs	Biology
What Data is already loaded	Weddell data from 1973 to present at Davis Ellie data from Heard 1949-1955 and 1950-65 and 1980 onwards at Macca. Some other sightings in Tassie and New Zealand. Ellie data from Macca is loaded via the observers. Data will be loaded for Weddells at Casey from 2008 for a five year study.
Approximate cardinality of the main recordset	200,000

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News

Historic Elephant seal data from Heard Island 1949 to 1955   - 11-Nov-2004

This tagging data is now available. Data was recovered from paper cards found in the store by Clive McMahon in 2001.

Seal Sightings Database   - 30-Sep-2003

Elephant Seal Sightings from Macquarie Island (1950 to 1979 and then from 1984 to the present) and Weddell Seal Sightings from the Vestfold Hills area of Antarctica (1972 to 1993) are now available to the public.

Dataset Growth

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