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Luna - Cemetery Beach Port Hedland Flatback Tracking Project, 2010 - 2011

A project of West Australian Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking Project.

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Luna (Flatback Turtle) is 13 km NW of the coast of Australia and 224 km from Port Hedland

Background

This is the third consecutive year that flatback turtles are being satellite tracked from Cemetery Beach in Port Hedland, Western Australia. This tracking program forms one component of a larger marine turtle research and monitoring progam that is being sponsored by BHP Billiton Quantum outer harbour project. The program is being carried out by marine turtle biologists from Pendoley Environmental who are also managing a flatback turtle flipper tagging program and a flatback turtle nest success program on Cemetery Beach.

The satellite tracking results will provide data on the turtles nesting at Cemetery Beach and will allow researchers to identify turtles that move between rookeries (eg turtles tagged at Mundabullangana have been seen at Cemetery Beach) in addition to showing us where they go between nesting events both within a season and between seasons, what migratory corridors they use when returning to remote foraging grounds and will show us where those foraging grounds are.

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For more information please visit the project website.
This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '3', '2', '1', '0', 'A'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
This maps also shows locations of class 'A' as small black dots which are not connected by a route line.
Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO One Minute Grid.
Sea surface temperature and chlorophyll are derived from NASA's Ocean Color data.
Ocean currents and sea surface heights are derived from AVISO's Ssalto/Duacs Gridded Absolute Dynamic Topography & absolute geostrophic velocities data.