Name: Adélie penguin occupancy survey of Murray Monolith, 2010
Published: 2022-10-11
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: EARTH SCIENCE,BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION,ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES,BIRDS,PENGUINS,EARTH SCIENCE,CLIMATE INDICATORS,BIOSPHERIC INDICATORS,BREEDING PRODUCTIVITY,GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR,CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA,OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN,CAMERAS,AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS,AIRCRAFT,SATELLITES,WORLDVIEW-2,COLONIES,4088

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Citation: Southwell, C. and Emmerson, L. (2022) Adélie penguin occupancy survey of Murray Monolith, 2010, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.4225/15/58fd95d778104, Accessed: 2026-06-04
Title: Adélie penguin occupancy survey of Murray Monolith, 2010
Data Centre: Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI: doi:10.4225/15/58fd95d778104
Created Date: 2017-04-24
Revision Date: 2025-10-02
Parent record: AAS_4088_Adelie_breeding_colony_boundaries

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Description

Oblique hand-held photographs were taken of all Adélie penguin breeding colonies at Murray Monolith from a fixed wing aircraft on 10 December 2010. These photographs were geo-referenced to a Worldview 2 satellite image of both monoliths taken on 26 January 2011 and the colony boundaries in the geo-referenced photos were digitised as shapefiles. Some sections of the digitised Murray Monolith colonies near the crescent shaped moraine were moved so they were contained within the shapefile ‘rock_exposed_for_modelling_Scullin_Murray’).

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Quality

It was not possible to geo-reference oblique photos to satellite images perfectly. The colony boundaries are less accurate than those derived elsewhere in east Antarctica from vertical aerial photography (e.g. Vestfolds and Rauers) or ground survey (e.g. Robinsons).

Access

These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

Temporal Coverages

Start date: 2010-12-10 - Stop date: 2010-12-10

Spatial Coverages

Latitude

Northernmost:
Southernmost:

Longitude

Westernmost:
Easternmost:

Science Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS
EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > BIOSPHERIC INDICATORS > BREEDING PRODUCTIVITY

Additional Keywords

COLONIES
4088

Locations

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

Platforms

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS
AIRCRAFT
SATELLITES
WORLDVIEW-2

Instruments

CAMERAS

Researchers

southwell, colin (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)
emmerson, louise (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)

Use Constraints

This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Murray_2010 when using these data.

Please refer to the Seabird Conservation Team Data Sharing Policy for use, acknowledgement and availability of data prior to downloading data.

Metadata details

AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Murray_2010