Elephant Seal Sightings, Heard Island (1949 to 1960)

• Other Authors: BURTON, HARRY (hasPrincipalInvestigator), WATTS, DAVE JOHN (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; oceans; SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; MAMMALS; CARNIVORES; SPECIES LIFE HISTORY; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ELEPHANT SEALS; LENGTH ESTIMATES; RESIGHTS; TAGGING; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS; FIELD SURVEYS; OBIS > OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; IPY > INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR; SCAR-MARBIN > SCAR Marine Biodiversity Information Network; CAML > CENSUS OF ANTARCTIC MARINE LIFE; COML > CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE; EBA > Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Heard Island; Indian; Heard; McDonald Islands; Antarc*; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; International Polar Year; IPY; walrus*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/elephant-seal-sightings-1949-1960/701925; https://doi.org/10.4225/15/5b35cea358e76; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Tags_heard_1949; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

At Heard Island, Southern Indian Ocean, seals were branded between 1949-1953. Seal length was measured in feet and inches. Recaptures of seals were made up until 1955, and growth and age-specific survival was calculated.