The seals of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies

• Published in: Oryx
• Main Author: Laws, R.M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Fauna and Flora International 1953
• Subjects: Antarctic; South Orkney Islands; Graham Land; Antarc*; Elephant Seal
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/526986/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605300036383

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey has established and maintained a number of antarctic bases since 1945. They are located on the Graham Land peninsula, in the South Shetland and South Orkney Islands, and at South Georgia; over the years a great deal of general information about the various species of seals has accumulated. I have spent a total of thirty-six months in the Dependencies between 1948 and 1951 and some weeks in the Falkland Islands, occupied with a special study of the elephant seal, although opportunities were taken for work on other species. As a result we now have a fairly comprehensive picture of the status of the various pinniped species in this sector of the southern oceans.