Adelie penguin occupancy survey of the Lewis Islands, 2012

Created 13/03/2025

Updated 13/03/2025

An occupancy survey in December 2009-February 2010 and January 2011 found a total of 6 islands along the Knox coast had populations of breeding Adelie penguins. The survey in 2009/10 was conducted from a fixed wing aircraft and oblique aerial photographs were taken of occupied sites. The aerial photographs were geo-referenced to satellite images or the coastline shapefile from the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA, tile E157) and the boundaries of penguin colonies were digitised from the geo-referenced photos. Details for each island are: Merrit: Photographs taken on 1 February 2010 and geo-referenced to LIMA tile E157 Cape Nutt: Photographs taken on 5 January 2010 and geo-referenced to a Quickbird satellite image taken on 17 February 2011 Ivanoff Head: Photographs taken on 27 December 2009 and geo-referenced to LIMA tile E157 Please refer to the Seabird Conservation Team Data Sharing Policy for use, acknowledgement and availability of data prior to downloading data.

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Title Adelie penguin occupancy survey of the Lewis Islands, 2012
Language eng
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Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/c3b7157f-a024-40d0-ab6b-3a488fd6adfd
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CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 26/01/2012 - 26/01/2012
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[107.08, -66.55], [109.33, -66.55], [109.33, -66.45], [107.08, -66.45], [107.08, -66.55]]]}
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