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Citation
Commonwealth of Australia (2015) A log of zoological observations made at Wilkes Station and the Windmill Islands, 1959-1961, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.4225/15/54D940F909233, Accessed: 2026-05-13
Title
A log of bird banding and zoological observations made at Wilkes Station and the Windmill Islands, 1962-1963
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI
doi:10.4225/15/54D940F909233
Created Date
2015-02-09
Revision Date
2024-12-10
Expected Date of Data Release
2015-02-10
Data Version
1
Parent record
Biology_Logs_1948_1991

Description

This file contains a record of bird banding activities undertaken at Wilkes Station in 1962 and 1963. It also contains a log of observations made on animals in the area, as well as some hand-drawn maps. This document was compiled by F. Soucek.

Animals observed include:
Adelie penguins
McCormick skuas
Wilson's storm petrels
Giant petrels
Silver grey petrels
Snow petrels
Antarctic petrels
Snow petrels
Antarctic terns
Cape pigeons
Emperor penguins
Weddell seals
Elephant seals
Leopard seals
Crabeater seals
Whales

This is a scanned copy of the original log.

The hard copy of the log has been archived at the National Archives of Australia.

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Quality

Some of the scanned text may be very faint.

Access

This log is available for download from the provided URL.

Temporal Coverages

Spatial Coverages

Science Keywords

Additional Keywords

  • Wilkes
  • Adelie penguins
  • McCormick skuas
  • Wilson's storm petrels
  • Giant petrels
  • Silver grey petrels
  • Snow petrels
  • Antarctic petrels
  • Antarctic terns
  • Cape pigeons
  • Emperor penguins
  • Weddell seals
  • Elephant seals
  • Leopard seals
  • Crabeater seals
  • Whales
  • Skuas

Locations

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

Platforms

  • FIELD INVESTIGATION
  • FIELD SURVEYS

Instruments

    None

Researchers

  • connell, dave (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)

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=Biology_Log_Wilkes_Bird_Banding_1962_1963 when using these 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

      2015-02-10 - record created by Dave Connell. 2017-04-26 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates. 2024-12-10 - record updated by Dave Connell to alter the abstract.

    Creative Commons License