Adelie penguin occupancy survey of the Rookery Island Group, 2013

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

Six colonies with breeding Adelie colonies were mapped this season in the Rookery Island group in conjunction with colony counts. Islands 74814 and the main Rookery Island 74721 were not mapped this season. Subcolonies were mapped by circumnavigating the perimeter of sub-colonies on foot while carrying a Garmin GPS (Legend Cx) to log the track taken. The person walking the perimeter of the sub-colonies maintained a buffer distance of approximately 2.5m between themselves and the breeding birds along the sub-colony boundary. This buffer distance was reduced to approximately 2m 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 Rookery Island Group, 2013
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/9fb6fdde-10d1-45e8-8cab-8e9b8300ad8b
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 04/12/2013 - 04/12/2013
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        62.51,
        -67.61
      ],
      [
        62.52,
        -67.61
      ],
      [
        62.52,
        -67.59
      ],
      [
        62.51,
        -67.59
      ],
      [
        62.51,
        -67.61
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Adelie penguin occupancy survey of the Rookery Island Group, 2013". 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-rookery-island-group-2013