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Location of elephant seal wallows in the Vestfold Hills, 2007

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Updated 23/06/2025

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Results from a February 2007 survey of the Vestfold Hills coastline and offshore islands for used and disused southern elephant seal wallows. The data here are point locations of the wallows, not the extents or boundaries of the wallows. The table below gives the coordinates (decimal degrees) for the elephant seal wallows found, their unofficial names and the wallow status as used or disused at the time of survey. Data were used in the 2018 Vestfold Hills/Davis Station Helicopter map: Wallow name Latitude Longitude Status Hawker Island -68.637360 77.840040 Used Hawker Island -68.634950 77.841310 Used Hawker Island -68.632180 77.841560 Used Mule Island -68.647860 77.825900 Unused Mule Island -68.646650 77.823920 Unused Zappert Point -68.505100 78.081020 Unused Old Wallow -68.598345 77.937185 Used Davis beach -68.577926 77.967032 Used Heidemann Bay -68.592067 77.945325 Used North of station -68.571916 77.971011 Used

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Title Location of elephant seal wallows in the Vestfold Hills, 2007
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/b38a60f1-5ef1-4cf8-9051-4447bcc7ad0f
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
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Reference Period 01/02/2007 - 28/02/2007
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
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        77.86011,
        -68.76824
      ],
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        78.71704,
        -68.76824
      ],
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        78.71704,
        -68.39514
      ],
      [
        77.86011,
        -68.39514
      ],
      [
        77.86011,
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      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Location of elephant seal wallows in the Vestfold Hills, 2007". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/location-of-elephant-seal-wallows-in-the-vestfold-hills-2007