a0713396-39cd-40f2-8549-dd0b0891fa11 urn:uuid eng UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2025-11-17T10:45:29 creation ISO 19115 2016 Animal Tracking at Heard Island 2003/2004 - ARGOS data a0713396-39cd-40f2-8549-dd0b0891fa11 A major goal of a research expedition by the Australian Antarctic Division over the summer of (2003/04) in the Southern Ocean off Heard Island was to answer some of the questions needed to determine what level of exploitation of Southern Ocean fisheries is sustainable. The use of novel equipment, cutting edge technology and some adept logistical co-ordination allowed the Aurora Australis, on the Southern Ocean, to catch the prey of the predators of Heard Island. This work was accomplished by placing satellite trackers on animals at Heard Island, and then, using the ARGOS system, monitoring their activities in the Southern Ocean around the island. The Aurora Australis assisted in the monitoring and tracking of the animals by searching the areas the animals were foraging for prey species. The animals tracked in this experiment were: Light-mantled sooty albatrosses black-browed albatrosses king penguins macaroni penguins Antarctic fur seals The columns in this data file are: individual_id - the identifier of the individual animal species - the species name of that animal pttid - the identifier of the PTT tracker deployed on that animal deployment_longitude - the longitude at which the tracker was deployed deployment_latitude - the latitude at which the tracker was deployed observation_date - the date (ISO8601 format) of the position observation year, month, day, time, time_zone - as per the observation_date, but in separate columns locationclass - the ARGOS location class of the position (see http://www.argos-system.org/manual/3-location/34_location_classes.htm; value -3 corresponds to a "Z" class, value -2 to "B", value -1 to "A") latitude - the latitude of the position observation longitude - the longitude of the position observation {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[68.0, -56.0], [80.0, -56.0], [80.0, -50.0], [68.0, -50.0], [68.0, -56.0]]]} 68.0 80.0 -56.0 -50.0 AMD AMD/AU ANTARCTIC FUR SEAL ARGOS ARGOS > ARGOS Data Collection and Position Location System AURORA AUSTRALIS BLACK BROWED ALBATROSS CEOS DATE AND TIME EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > INDIGENOUS/NATIV EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > RANGE CHANGES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SPECIES PREDATIO EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > USE/FEEDING HABI EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > PELAGIC EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > ISLANDS GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR HEARD ISLAND KING PENGUIN LATITUDE LIGHT MANTLED SOOTY ALBATROSS LONGITUDE MACARONI PENGUIN OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS PTT SATELLITE TRACKS SATELLITES SEX SPECIES GET DATA documentDigital Download point for the data HTML VIEW RELATED INFORMATION documentDigital Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset HTML Creative Commons by Attribution logo documentDigital PNG