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Macquarie Island Seals GIS Dataset.

Australian Antarctic Division
Harris, U. ; HARRIS, URSULA
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These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL. Stored data format: ArcView shapefile Available format type: ArcView shapefile. Stored as geographicals with a projection file.

This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=macca_seals_gis when using these data.

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Seal colonies on Macquarie Island.
This is a polygon dataset stored in the Geographical Information System (GIS).
Attributes include the species name and whether breeding occurs within the area represented.
The species include Southern Elephant and Fur.

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Progress Code: completed
Statement: The locations of colonies were eyed in using as a guide sketches by Clive McMahon (sketches on two 1:25000 maps covering the island) and John Van den hoff (sketches on an A4 map of the ANARE station at The Isthmus) of the Australian Antarctic Division. John indicated areas where seal colonies are found. These were represented by polygon data. Clive indicated sections of coastline along which seal colonies are found. The coastline was buffered by a nominal distance of 20 metres so that this information could also be represented by polygon data. Attribute data were also provided by Clive and John. 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: 1999-12-14 to 2015-03-31

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AMD | AMD/AU | CEOS | EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES | FIELD SURVEYS | GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR | GIS | MACQUARIE ISLAND | OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN | OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND | SEALS | VISUAL OBSERVATIONS | biota | oceans |

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url : https://data.aad.gov.au/eds/4177/download

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

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

url : http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=macca_seals_gis

Identifiers
ACN 633 798 857