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Studies on the Behaviour and Reproduction of the Royal Penguin (Eudyptes...
This work was carried out by Graeme Smith between 1966 and 1970 as part of a PhD at the Australian National University. The dataset contains information about penguins killed in... -
Macquarie Island: A window into the oceanic crust and upper mantle
Because of the inaccessibility of the deep-ocean floor, our knowledge about the composition and structure of the oceanic crust is very limited. Macquarie Island is the only... -
Non-modelled 10 day LC50 from rapid tests at Macquarie Island 2007/08
Rapid toxicity tests (Kefford et al. 2005) were used to test the sensitivity of a wide range of intertidal and shallow sub-tidal marine invertebrates collected off the northern... -
Macquarie Island Brown Skua GPS tracking and prey remain data of breeding birds
This dataset contains: 1) GPS tracking data of breeding birds tracked over the 2017/18 season; 2) Prey remains surveyed at the nests of breeding birds during the 2017/18 season... -
A database of Scientific Voyages of the Australian Antarctic Programme.
A register of all voyages that contribute to the science of the Australian Antarctic Programme. It includes voyages that opportunistically collect marine data while underway.... -
Macquarie Island Flying Birds GIS Dataset.
Flying bird breeding colonies on Macquarie Island. This is a polygon dataset stored in the Geographical Information System (GIS). Attributes include the species name and the... -
The current trajectory of king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) chick...
From 2007 to 2020, annual island-wide censuses of king penguin chicks were undertaken in the second week of August each year. This data was compared to environmental variables... -
Antarctic Climate Data Collected by Australian Agencies
NOTE - to access these data, please contact the AADC. The data can only be made available on request. This record provides a listing of meteorological data collected in the... -
Tectonic, magmatic and hydrothermal evolution of ocean floor spreading at...
Macquarie Island offers a rare land-based cross-section through the deep ocean floor, which covers 60% of our Earth. It formed 11 million years ago as slow spreading crust,... -
Macquarie Island Brown Skua breeding and diet data
This dataset contains: 1) count data from a series of surveys of brown skua nest numbers and breeding success conducted from 2008/09 to 2017/18; 2) historic skua nest count data... -
To Establish the Baseline Parameters for the Haematology and Red Blood Cell...
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 545 See the link below for public details on this project. From the abstract of the referenced paper: Blood was collected for... -
Macquarie Island Tide Gauge Data 1993-2007
Over time there have been a number of tide gauges deployed at Macquarie Island Station. The data download files contain further information about the gauges, but some of the... -
Marine debris dataset of Heard Island and Macquarie Island beaches and...
Marine debris records from beaches on Heard and Macquarie Islands and floating debris spotted on voyages. Data were collected by observers surveying beaches either methodically... -
Winter foraging success of Southern Ocean predators in relation to...
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2794 See the link below for public details on this project. Public: This study will use innovative technology to measure the winter... -
Royal penguin Eudyptes schlegeli observations at North Head, Macquarie Island 1952/53
Observations of Royal Penguins at North Head, Macquarie Island were made to 2 purposes. First, general observations of the whole rookery, with counting birds, noting times of... -
Conservation and population status of albatrosses and giant petrels on...
Databases (Wandering, Black-browed, Light-mantled Sooty and Grey-headed albatrosses, Northern Giant Petrels and Southern Giant Petrels): These databases summarise all banding... -
ARGOS Tracking Data of Fur Seals from Macquarie Island in 1997-1999
The populations of fur seals on Australia's two subantarctic islands were exterminated by uncontrolled sealing in the 19th century. Only in the latter half of the 20th century... -
Nest and colony locations for albatross and giant petrels on Macquarie Island
These data were collected as part of project 4112 - Status and trends of Macquarie Island Albatrosses and Giant Petrels: management and conservation of threatened seabirds.... -
Environmental determinants of fecundity and pup growth in fur seals
This indicator is no longer maintained, and is considered OBSOLETE. INDICATOR DEFINITION The fecundity (pupping rates) of female fur seals and the growth rates of their pups... -
Squid in the antarctic and subantarctic, their biology and ecology
From the abstract of the referenced paper: Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA markers (RAPDs) were applied in a cephalopod population study. Samples of the squid Moroteuthis...