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Macquarie Island Flying Birds GIS Dataset.

Australian Antarctic Division
Harris, U. ; HARRIS, URSULA
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Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=macca_flyingbirds_gis when using these data.

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Flying bird breeding colonies on Macquarie Island.
This is a polygon dataset stored in the Geographical Information System (GIS).
Attributes include the species name and the time of the year during which breeding occurs.
The species include Black-browed Albatross, Grey-headed albatross, Southern Giant-Petrel and Wandering Albatross.

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Progress Code: completed
Statement: The locations of most of the breeding colonies were eyed in using as a guide sketches by Aleks Terauds of the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlfe Service. The sketches were done on three A4 maps which together covered the island at a scale of 1:50000. Aleks did not mark all Southern Giant-Petrel colonies on the maps. This is because they vary in size and location from year to year. He drew on the maps those colonies that are most consistently present or large in size. Aleks did not include the Northern Giant-Petrel colonies or Light-mantled Sooty Albatross colonies in the data. He stated that the Northern Giant-Petrels nest right around the coast of Macquarie Island on the coastal flats and the Light-mantled Sooty Albatross also have a ubiquitous distribution, nesting mainly on the coastal slopes around the island. The locations of some additional Southern Giant-Petrel breeding colonies were eyed in using information provided by Robb Clifton (Station Leader 2001) as a guide. These observations were made by Aleks Terauds, Mark Geyle, Kieran Lawton (FTO) and Martin Schulz. The data conforms to the Australian Antarctic Spatial Data Model which includes Data Quality Indicators. Usually mapped to a Universal Transverse Mercator projection, Zone 57.

Data time period: 2000-07-01 to 2000-07-01

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AMD | AMD/AU | BIRDS | CEOS | EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > ALBATROSSES/PETRELS AND ALLIES | FIELD SURVEYS | FLYING | GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR | GIS | GPS > Global Positioning System | MACQUARIE ISLAND | OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN | OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND | SURVEYING TOOLS | VISUAL OBSERVATIONS | biota | oceans |

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Download page for Australian Antarctic Data Centre (GET DATA)

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Australian Antarctic Spatial Data Model. Includes Data Quality Indicator information. (GET DATA)

uri : http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/ftc/index.cfm#0

Additional information from Aleks Terauds (VIEW RELATED INFORMATION)

uri : http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/gis_info/macca_flybirds_additional_info.html

Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset (VIEW RELATED INFORMATION)

uri : http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=macca_flyingbirds_gis

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