Adult male southern elephant seals from King George Island utilize the Weddell Sea

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Tosh, C. A., Bornemann, H., Ramdohr, S., Schröder, M., Martin, Thomas, Carlini, A., Plötz, J., Bester, M. N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2009
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Bransfield Strait; Filchner Trough; King George Island; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Elephant Seals; Ice Shelf; Sea ice; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/6964/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/6964/1/Tosh_Bornemann.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102008001557

Adult male southern elephant seals instrumented in 2000 on King George Island (n = 13), travelled both to the north (n = 2) and to the east (n = 6) of the Antarctic Peninsula. Five males remained within 500 km of the island focusing movements in the Bransfield Strait and around the Antarctic Peninsu...