Name: Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins around Antarctica
Published: 2007-08-08
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: EARTH SCIENCE,BIOSPHERE,ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS,EARTH SCIENCE,BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION,ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES,BIRDS,EARTH SCIENCE,BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION,ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES,BIRDS,PENGUINS,EARTH SCIENCE,BIOSPHERE,ECOSYSTEMS,AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS,OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN,CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > East Antarctica,GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR,ARGOS,[object Object],Pygoscelis adeliae,satellite tracking,foraging distribution

All scientific data collected by the Australian Antarctic program (AAp) are eventually described in the Catalogue of Australian Antarctic and Subantarctic Metadata (CAASM). CAASM can be used to search through AAp data descriptions, and it also provides links to access publicly available datasets, which can either be immediately downloaded or obtained from the Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC).

View the full metadata record

Citation: Southwell, C., Pike, R.J. and Kerry, K. (2007) Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins around Antarctica, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/satellite_tracking_adelie, Accessed: 2026-05-25
Title: Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins around Antarctica
Data Centre: Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
Created Date: 2007-08-08
Revision Date: 2019-06-20
Parent record: None
Child record: Tracking_BI
Tracking_DD
Tracking_EDP
Tracking_Mag
Tracking_SI

Datasets and documents

Description

These datasets contain the results from satellite tracking the movements of Adelie Penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) from the following locations in Antarctica: Bechervaise Island, Magnetic Island, Shirley Island, Edmonson Point in Terra Nova Bay, Dumont D'Urville area. By the use of satellite fixes the foraging locations of the penguins were determined. See the child metadata records for further information.

This work was completed as part of ASAC project 2205 (ASAC_2205), 'Adelie penguin research and monitoring in support of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project'.

Quality

See the quality flags associated with each PTT device. Quality flags can be interpreted as follows:

0 - greater than 1000 metres
1 - less than 1000 metres
2 - less than 350 metres
3 - less than 150 metres

A - 3 message location
B - 2 message location
Z - un-validated location

See the ARGOS website for further information.

Access

Some of these data are publicly available via a database maintained by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC) at the provided URL. See the child metadata records for tracking data specific to each location.

For assistance extracting data from the database, please contact the AADC.

Temporal Coverages

Start date: 1991-01-01 - Stop date:

Spatial Coverages

Latitude

Northernmost:
Southernmost:

Longitude

Westernmost:
Easternmost:

Science Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS

Additional Keywords

Pygoscelis adeliae
satellite tracking
foraging distribution

Locations

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

Platforms

SATELLITES

Instruments

ARGOS Data Collection and Position Location System

Researchers

southwell, colin (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)
pike, rhonda (TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)
kerry, knowles (INVESTIGATOR)

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=satellite_tracking_adelie when using these data.

Metadata details

satellite_tracking_adelie