TemperateReefBase Geonetwork Catalogue
Emperor Penguin Colony at Peterson Bank
The exact location of an Emperor Penguin Colony on Peterson Bank continually changes due to the changing ice conditions of where the colony is situated.
The location confirmed on the 3rd of November 1994 on fast ice at Peterson Bank was 65.9333 S, 110.2 E, 41km NNW of Australia's Casey Station. The location was recorded by Ward Bremmers during a helicopter flight involved in the resupply operations from an ice-bound ship to Casey Station.
The presence of chicks was confirmed on landing and an approximate count estimated chick numbers at 2000 with at least 1000 adults present. Many foraging animals were also observed in transit in the surrounding area. Approximately 100 dead chicks, ranging in age from a few weeks to 3 months old, were observed during a casual check in the immediate vicinity.
The colony lies on fast ice amid grounded bergs in Peterson Bank. The surrounding icebergs are widely spaced (1-2km), so the colony site is relatively unsheltered from the prevailing easterly gales. The sea-ice thickness at the colony sites was 7-8m, suggesting the ice had been stable for the previous three or our seasons. However, during a second visit to the site on 24 December 1994, the ice at the colony site was breaking up, and 200 chicks in the process of moulting were observed drifting on a large ice floe.
On the 24 of April in 1995, a large group of Adults on new ice amid grounded bergs in the Peterson Bank was sighted, suggesting that the colony was reforming.
The fields in this dataset are:
Date
Latitude
Longitude
Number of Adults
Number of Chicks
Dead Chicks
Comments
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
- Emperor Penguin Colony at Peterson Bank
- Date (Publication)
- 2003-06-03
- Edition
- 1
- Citation identifier
-
Dataset DOI
- Title
- Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
- Date (Publication)
- 2012-04-23
- Citation identifier
- ISO 26324:2012
- Citation identifier
- doi:10.4225/15/5aeaa3cf552c0
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
-
- Biota
- Oceans
Extent
))
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 1994-11-03 1995-04-24
- Title
- A recently discovered breeding colony of emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) on the Budd Coast, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica
- Date (Publication)
- 1995
- Citation identifier
- 31
Author
- Name
- Polar Record
- Issue identification
- 179
- Page
- 426-427
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE FLOES
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > SEA ICE MOTION
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS
- Keywords
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- ANTARCTICA
- BREEDING
- CASEY STATION
- COLONY
- COMMENTS
- DATE
- DEAD CHICKS
- EMPEROR
- FAST ICE
- LATITUDE
- LONGITUDE
- NUMBER OF ADULTS
- NUMBER OF CHICKS
- PENGUIN
- PETERSON BANK
- SEA-ICE
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- HELICOPTER
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- AMD
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Peterson Bank
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- Title
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Website
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license
- 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=Emperor_Peterson when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- free
- Planned available datetime
- 2003-06-03T00:00:00
- Units of distribution
- kb
- Transfer size
- 1
- Distribution format
-
- csv
- OnLine resource
-
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Download point for the data
- OnLine resource
-
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2008-04-08 - record updated by Dave Connell. 2018-05-03 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/Emperor_Peterson
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- c2b6b778-3e2e-4ce2-9898-c65c62eb21ac
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2015-11-29T19:42:25
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/Emperor_Peterson
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2003-05-27T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2018-05-03
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
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