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Boundaries of Adelie penguin breeding colonies at numerous breeding sites across east Antarctica

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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The dataset contains boundaries of Adelie penguin breeding colonies at numerous breeding sites across east Antarctica. The boundary data were obtained using a range of methods which are detailed in separate spatial group-season accounts. The database of potential Adelie penguin breeding habitat in Southwell et al. (2016a) was used to associate colony boundaries to a particular breeding site and structure how the boundaries are stored. The breeding site database has a unique identifying code of every site of potential breeding habitat in East Antarctica, and the sites are aggregated into spatial sub-groups and then spatial groups. The file structure in which the boundaries are stored has a combination of 'group' and 'split-year breeding season' at the top level (eg VES 2015-16 contains all boundaries in spatial group VES (Vestfold Hills and islands) taken in the 2015-16 breeding season). Within each group-year folder are sub-folders for each breeding site where photos were taken (eg IS_72276 is Gardner Island in the VES group). 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 Boundaries of Adelie penguin breeding colonies at numerous breeding sites across east Antarctica
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/5fee1ceb-6d35-4bf7-a012-9e89dff5a232
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/09/1981 - 31/03/2017
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        60.0,
        -70.0
      ],
      [
        140.0,
        -70.0
      ],
      [
        140.0,
        -65.0
      ],
      [
        60.0,
        -65.0
      ],
      [
        60.0,
        -70.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Boundaries of Adelie penguin breeding colonies at numerous breeding sites across east Antarctica". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/boundaries-of-adelie-penguin-breeding-colonies-at-numerous-breeding-sites-across-east-antarctic