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Maja - Barrow Island flatback tracking 2008-2009
A project of West Australian Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking Project.
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Background
Maja was selected for the satellite tracking program from the Barrow Island flatback rookery. The central east coast of Barrow Island supports the primary flatback rookery on Barrow Island. This is a low energy environment compared to the west coast which supports almost 100% green turtle nesting. A saturation flipper tagging program on six flatback nesting beaches on Barrow Island is in its fourth year with 12 volunteers on two week shifts tagging all 6 beaches from late November to the end of January each year. The satellite tracking program complements the tagging program by identifying the internesting, migratroy pathway and foraging habitat used by the turtles that are being studied in the tagging program at Barrow Island. This ptt was attached by Paul Todd with assistance from 2008/2009 flatback turtle flipper tagging volunteers.
- The presentation of data here does not constitute publication. All data remain copyright of the project partners. Maps or data on this website may not be used or referenced without the explicit written consent of the data owners.
- For more information please visit the project website.
- This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location codes (lc) '3', '2', '1', '0', 'A', 'B'.
- The static maps also shows locations of class 'A' as small black circles which are not connected by a route line.
- Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO Digital Atlas published by the British Oceanographic Data Centre on behalf of the IOC and IHO, 2003, and the ETOPO2 Global 2' Elevations published by NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center.
- Sea surface temperature is derived from NOAA's GOES Daily Sea Surface Temperature data.