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Adelie Penguin Colonies - Mawson Area and Rookery Islands

This dataset includes Adelie penguin colonies and coastline digitised from Eric J. Woehler, G.W. Johnstone and Harry R. Burton, 'ANARE Research Notes 71, The distribution and abundance of Adelie penguins, Pygoscelis adeliae, in the Mawson area and at the Rookery Islands (Specially Protected Area 2), 1981 and 1988'.


Copies of the maps as PDF and TIFF downloads are available through the SCAR Map Catalogue (see the links in the related links section).


Map 1 [Mawson area, including the Rookery Islands SPA]

Map 2 [Rookery Islands SPA]

Map 3 [Islands near Mawson Station]

Map 4 [Rookery Island 1]

Map 5 [Rookery Island 2]

Map 6 [Rookery Island 3]

Map 7 [Rookery Island 3A]

Map 8 [Rookery Island 4]

Map 9 [Rookery Island 5]

Map 10 [Rookery Island 6]

Map 11 [Rookery Island 7]

Map 13 [Rookery Island 9]

Map 14 [Rookery Island 10 and 11]

Map 15 [Giganteus Island]

Map 16 [Rookery Island]

Map 17 [Bechervaise Island]

Map 18 [Verner Island]

Map 19 [Petersen Island]

Map 20 [Welch Island Sheet 1 of 2]

Map 20 [Welch Island Sheet 2 of 2]

Map 21 [Klung Island]

Map 22 [Un-named island west of Klung Island]

Map 23 [Gibbney Island]

Map 24 [Un-named island west of Forbes Glacier]

Map 25 [Islands surveyed in 1981-82 where Adelie penguin colonies were located]

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Identification info

Alternate title
Adelie Penguin Colonies - Mawson Area and Rookery Islands
Date (Publication)
2003-03-25
Edition
1

Originator

Harris, U.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

HARRIS, URSULA
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3519
+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Collaborator

HARRIS, URSULA
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3519
+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ANARE-71

Status
Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - HARRIS, URSULA (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3519
+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans

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Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
1981-01-01 1988-12-31
Title
The distribution and abundance of Adelie penguins, Pygoscelis adeliae , in the Mawson area and at the Rookery Islands (Specially Protected Area 2), 1981 and 1988
Date (Publication)
1989
Citation identifier
71

Author

Eric J. Woehler, G.W. Johnstone and Harry R. Burton.
Name
ANARE Research Notes
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
Keywords
  • ANTARCTICA
  • GIS
  • MAWSON AREA
  • ADELIE PENGUIN
  • ROOKERY ISLANDS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • CEOS
  • AMD/AU
  • AMD
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Holme Bay
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

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This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

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licence
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Stored data format: ArcView shapefile Available format type: ArcView shapefile. Stored as geographicals. The data are available for download from the URL given below.

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File type
Portable Network Graphic
Linkage
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Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

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Use constraints
licence
Other constraints
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=ANARE-71 when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - HARRIS, URSULA (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3519
+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Distributor

Fees
free
Planned available datetime
2003-03-25T00:00:00
Distribution format
  • shapefiles

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Pdfs showing the fit achieved to Australian Antarctic Data Centre GIS datasets 57, 90, 91 and 97 coastline after georeferencing of the digitised coastline and penguin colonies

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Map 1 [Mawson area, including the Rookery Islands SPA]

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Map 2 [Rookery Islands SPA]

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Map 3 [Islands near Mawson Station]

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Map 4 [Rookery Island 1]

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Map 5 [Rookery Island 2]

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Map 6 [Rookery Island 3]

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Map 7 [Rookery Island 3A]

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Map 8 [Rookery Island 4]

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Map 9 [Rookery Island 5]

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Map 10 [Rookery Island 6]

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Map 11 [Rookery Island 7]

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Map 13 [Rookery Island 9]

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Map 14 [Rookery Island 10 and 11]

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Map 15 [Giganteus Island]

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Map 16 [Rookery Island]

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Map 17 [Bechervaise Island]

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Map 18 [Verner Island]

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Map 19 [Petersen Island]

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Map 20 [Welch Island Sheet 1 of 2]

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Map 20 [Welch Island Sheet 2 of 2]

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Map 21 [Klung Island]

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Map 23 [Gibbney Island]

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Map 24 [Un-named island west of Forbes Glacier]

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Map 25 [Islands surveyed in 1981-82 where Adelie penguin colonies were located]

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Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Resource lineage

Statement
The colonies and coastline were digitised and the resulting dxf files were converted to shapefiles and spatially adjusted in ArcGIS 8.3 using the coastline from Australian Antarctic Data Centre GIS datasets 57, 90, 91 and 97. Two different spatial adjustment techniques were used: Affine transformation using 4 points followed by a small shift or scaling to get the best fit with the coastline. These data have Qinfo = 610. Similarity transformation followed by a small shift or scaling to get the best fit with the coastline. These data have Qinfo = 611. The penguin colony attribute table is populated with the count given in ANARE Research Notes 71. Some islands were not fully mapped. Use coastline data to see which parts of the islands were mapped and which were not. A pdf file was created for each map showing the result of the spatial adjustment in relation to the coastline. Refer to the link below. Coastline data belonging to datasets 57, 90, 91 and 97 are depicted in black. Data belonging to dataset 218 are depicted in grey. The penguin polygons are grey. Map 20 sheet 1 has a polygon on the edge of the mapping extent, the count is recorded as 71 but it may be more. Map 23 has a photo join, there is some uncertainty as to the accuracy of the count but it is more than 200. The shapefiles have been formatted according to the SCAR Feature Catalogue which includes data quality information (refer to link below). The dates provided in temporal coverage are approximate only. The years are correct. Must be cited properly. Usually mapped to a Universal Transverse Mercator projection, Zone 41.
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2014-12-01 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates. 2021-11-23 - record updated by Susan Doust to add map links.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/ANARE-71

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

BENDER, ANGELA
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3246
+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
18c51c2c-014e-4a13-9f84-f02ca23dcfdd

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2021-11-23T10:19:34

Identifier

Description
metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

Metadata linkage
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ANARE-71

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2005-01-19T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2021-11-22

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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