Macquarie Island Penguin Colonies GIS Dataset

This is a polygon GIS dataset representing penguin colonies on Macquarie Island.

The penguin species include Gentoo, King, Rockhopper and Royal.

Simple

Identification info

Alternate title
Macquarie Island Penguin Colonies GIS Dataset
Date (Publication)
2015-11-17
Edition
1

Originator

Harris, U.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

HARRIS, URSULA
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Collaborator

HARRIS, URSULA
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/macca_penguins_gis

Status
Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans

Extent

N
S
E
W


Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
1979-01-01
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS
Keywords
  • GIS
  • MACQUARIE ISLAND
  • PENGUINS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • NOT APPLICABLE
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • NOT APPLICABLE
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • AMD
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • 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
Linkage
Creative Commons by Attribution logo

Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
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=macca_penguins_gis when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Distributor

Fees
free
Planned available datetime
2015-11-17T00:00:00
Units of distribution
kb
Transfer size
82
Distribution format
  • shapefile

OnLine resource
GET DATA

Download point for the data

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Search the SCAR Feature Catalogue

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Resource lineage

Statement
The data conforms to the SCAR Feature Catalogue which includes data quality information. See the provided URL. Each feature has a Qinfo number which, when entered at the 'Search datasets and quality' tab, provides data quality information for the feature.
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2015-11-17 David Smith edited Title, Summary, Quality, Spatial Coverage, Access Constraints, Use Constraints, Related URLs, Distribution Information and Dataset Progress. 2019-09-10 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates. 2022-05-02 - record updated by Dave Connell for ISO compliance.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/macca_penguins_gis

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

SMITH, DAVID T.
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
293445a2-6882-4eb8-a7e0-c588c1a81cb9

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2022-05-02T14:43:05

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/macca_penguins_gis

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2001-06-06T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2022-05-02

Metadata standard

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

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Spatial extent

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S
E
W


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