Southern elephant seal tracking Sea Lion Island 2009-2011

The dataset describes the tracks of 24 adult female Southern elephant seals from 2009 to 2011, tagged at Sea Lion island (Falkland Islands) by researchers of the Elephant Seal Research Group (http://www.eleseal.org). This dataset was prepared as part of the Darwin Plus- funded project 'Marine Spatial Planning for the Falkland Islands' (July 2014-July 2016).

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Last Updated December 21, 2020, 10:01 (PST)
Created January 30, 2020, 05:20 (PST)
Region Falkland Islands
Language eng
Topic Category Biota; flora and/or fauna in natural environment
Temporal Extent Start 2009-01-01
Temporal Extent End 2011-12-31
Dataset Reference Date 2011
Lineage ARGOS satellite tags were deployed on 24 adult female Southern elephant seals over the period 2009-2011 by the Elephant Seal Research Group (lead researcher Filippo Galimberti) on Sea Lion Island. The raw ARGOS locations of the animals were provided as individual excel files (one per animal) by Filippo. Hence, 24 excel files were cleaned, and lat, long and data and time were reformatted and shapefile created. They were merged and reformatted to be transformed in a single shapefile that contains all locations within the Falklands' EEZ and a 50km buffer around it. The PTT numbe indicates each different animal.
West Longitude 12695.1
South Latitude 3963130.27
East Longitude 866043.44
North Latitude 4753958.05
Spatial Reference System UTM 21S WGS84
Responsible Organisation Name Hidden (personal data protection)
Contact Mail Address Hidden (personal data protection)
Responsible Party Role Hidden (personal data protection)
Access Limitations Restricted, send data request to data owner
Use Constraints Open, but copyright and/or Intellectual Property Rights apply
Resource Reference Please acknowledge data source as: SAERI Marine Spatial Planning. A Darwin PLUS Initiative project funded by the UK government
Data Format excel, shape
Update Frequency not planned
Accuracy Estimated around 200 metres
Resource Type Dataseries
Original Title Hidden (internal use only)
Metadata Date 2015-10-02
Metadata Point of Contact datamanager@saeri.ac.fk
Contact Consent Contact details hidden
Unique Resource ID FK-SAERI-224

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