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Adelie penguin occupancy survey of the Robinson Group, 2006

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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An occupancy survey in November 2006 found a total of 29 islands in the Robinson Group of islands had populations of breeding Adelie penguins. The boundaries of breeding colonies at 27 of these islands with larger populations were subsequently mapped for abundance surveys by circumnavigating the perimeter of sub-colonies on foot while carrying a Garmin GPS (Legend Cx or Vista C) to log the track taken. The person walking around the sub-colonies maintained a buffer distance of 2-5m between themselves and the penguins at the sub-colony boundary. This buffer distance was reduced to between 1 and 4m in the final shapefiles. 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 Robinson Group, 2006
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e7e30ab2-3e98-4e11-bcc0-82e4b230abcd
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/11/2006 - 30/11/2006
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        63.435,
        -67.445
      ],
      [
        63.443,
        -67.445
      ],
      [
        63.443,
        -67.435
      ],
      [
        63.435,
        -67.435
      ],
      [
        63.435,
        -67.445
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Adelie penguin occupancy survey of the Robinson Group, 2006". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/adelie-penguin-occupancy-survey-of-the-robinson-group-2006