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Adelie Penguin Colonies - Mawson Area and Rookery Islands

Created 13/03/2025

Updated 13/03/2025

This dataset includes Adelie penguin colonies and coastline digitised from Eric J. Woehler, G.W. Johnstone and Harry R. Burton, 'ANARE Research Notes 71, The distribution and abundance of Adelie penguins, Pygoscelis adeliae, in the Mawson area and at the Rookery Islands (Specially Protected Area 2), 1981 and 1988'. Copies of the maps as PDF and TIFF downloads are available through the SCAR Map Catalogue (see the links in the related links section). Map 1 [Mawson area, including the Rookery Islands SPA] Map 2 [Rookery Islands SPA] Map 3 [Islands near Mawson Station] Map 4 [Rookery Island 1] Map 5 [Rookery Island 2] Map 6 [Rookery Island 3] Map 7 [Rookery Island 3A] Map 8 [Rookery Island 4] Map 9 [Rookery Island 5] Map 10 [Rookery Island 6] Map 11 [Rookery Island 7] Map 13 [Rookery Island 9] Map 14 [Rookery Island 10 and 11] Map 15 [Giganteus Island] Map 16 [Rookery Island] Map 17 [Bechervaise Island] Map 18 [Verner Island] Map 19 [Petersen Island] Map 20 [Welch Island Sheet 1 of 2] Map 20 [Welch Island Sheet 2 of 2] Map 21 [Klung Island] Map 22 [Un-named island west of Klung Island] Map 23 [Gibbney Island] Map 24 [Un-named island west of Forbes Glacier] Map 25 [Islands surveyed in 1981-82 where Adelie penguin colonies were located]

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Title Adelie Penguin Colonies - Mawson Area and Rookery Islands
Language eng
Licence notspecified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/ba156e04-45f8-428d-a31b-69db9fba2de0
Contact Point
CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere
gis@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1981 - 31/12/1988
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[62.27, -67.63], [62.98, -67.63], [62.98, -67.54], [62.27, -67.54], [62.27, -67.63]]]}
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This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "Adelie Penguin Colonies - Mawson Area and Rookery Islands". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/adelie-penguin-colonies-mawson-area-and-rookery-islands

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