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AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Kista_2015

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Citation
Southwell, C. and Emmerson, L. (2022) Adélie penguin occupancy survey of the Kista Island Group, 2015, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.4225/15/58f98529b4ede, Accessed: 2026-06-04
Title
Adélie penguin occupancy survey of the Kista Island Group, 2015
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI
doi:10.4225/15/58f98529b4ede
Created Date
2017-04-21
Revision Date
2025-09-30
Expected Date of Data Release
2022-10-11
Data Version
1
Parent record
AAS_4088_Adelie_breeding_colony_boundaries

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    Description

    Seven colonies with breeding Adélie colonies were mapped this season in the Kista Island group between the 17th and 27th of November 2015. Subcolonies were mapped by circumnavigating the perimeter on foot while carrying a Garmin GPS (Etrex30) to record the track.

    When mapping the perimeter of the subcolonies, generally an average buffer distance of 2.5 meters was maintained between the mapper and breeding birds. However on Klung Island one of the mappers was mapping at a distance between 3 and 5m. Buffer distances were reduced accordingly for the varying tracks to produce a combined average buffer distance of 2m in the final layer. Given this the boundary mapping for these two islands may vary in accuracy.

    Note when mapping was undertaken at Peterson Island (74507) two subcolonies were not mapped when compared to mapping in the 13/14 season. The larger of these colonies was missed but the smaller colony did not exist in the 15/16 season.

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    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -67.54
    Southernmost:
    -67.56

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    62.96
    Easternmost:
    62.98

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

    • COLONIES
    • OCCUPANCY
    • 4088

    Locations

    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
    • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
    • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

    Platforms

    • FIELD SURVEYS
    • FIELD INVESTIGATION

    Instruments

    • GPS RECEIVERS

    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_Kista_2015 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.

    Project

      ISO Topic

      • BIOTA
      • OCEANS

      Dataset Language

      • English

      Orignating Centre

      • Australian Antarctic Division

      Dataset Progress

      • COMPLETE

      IDN Node

      • AMD/AU
      • CEOS
      • AMD

      Metadata Revision History

        2017-04-21 - record created by Colin Southwell. 2022-10-11 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data. 2025-09-30 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

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