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Weddell Seal Sightings, Vestfold Hills, Antarctica
Citation
Burton, H. (1999) Weddell Seals of the Vestfold Hills Antarctica, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - SnoWhite Metadata (http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=3802). https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/650
Contact: Watts, Dave

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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
Ground based sightings of Weddell seals resting/breeding on sea-ice or land in the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica. Data locality mapped to a one by one kilometre grid.

Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Tagging, PSE, Antarctica, Princess Elizabeth Land, Vestfold, Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson, 1826)

Geographical coverage
PSE, Antarctica, Princess Elizabeth Land, Vestfold

Temporal coverage
1973 - 2005
Daily

Taxonomic coverage
Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson, 1826) [WoRMS]

Parameters
Length
Links to pups
Presence of biota
Sex
Weight

Contributors
Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), moredata owner

Related datasets
Published in:
AntOBIS: Antarctic Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Metadatarecord created: 2005-12-19
Information last updated: 2015-01-23
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