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Bird Island female Antarctic fur seal geolocation tracking data

Created 17/11/2025

Updated 17/11/2025

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To quantify the post-breeding movements of adult female Antarctic females (Arctocephalus gazella) we tracked females using Biotrack GLS (geolocation) data loggers. Females were captured towards the end of the lactation period (March/April) and the GLS tag, affixed to a Dalton flipper tag, was deployed in the trailing edge of the left or right foreflipper. Tags were generally retrieved just prior to or after giving birth the following season. Data files were extracted from the tags using BASTrak software. .lig - light data .tem - temperature data .act - activity data Metadata for each individual include: Site, year, GLS ID, sex, age, deployment site, lat and long of deployment site, flipper tag number, deployment and retrieval times (GMT).

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Title Bird Island female Antarctic fur seal geolocation tracking data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/846f59ba-892b-4a1d-8def-dee2b5520dad
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 04/04/2008 - 20/12/2008
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    -38.05,
    -54.0
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
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