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Hope - Cape Lambert Flatback Turtle Monitoring Program
A project of Rio Tinto.
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Hope (Flatback Turtle) is 58 km NW of the coast of Australia and 546 km from Kupang
Background
A PTT was deployed with this turtle as part of Rio Tinto's Turtle Management program at Cape Lambert, Western Australia. The turtle was also flipper tagged (WA75201/WA75245). Hope was named by students from Wickham Primary School.
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- This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '4', '3', '2', '1', '0', 'A'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
- This maps also shows locations of class 'X' 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.