Elephant seal oil cargoes from King Island, Bass Strait, 1802-1819: with estimates of numbers killed and size of the original population
Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) were harvested for their oil at King Island, Bass Strait, from 1802 to 1819, by which time they were virtually extinct at that location and have not returned since. Oil cargo statistics have been collated from various secondary sources; in arriving at annua...
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ftunivtasmania:oai:eprints.utas.edu.au:13609 2023-05-15T16:05:17+02:00 Elephant seal oil cargoes from King Island, Bass Strait, 1802-1819: with estimates of numbers killed and size of the original population Ling, JK 1999 application/pdf https://eprints.utas.edu.au/13609/ https://eprints.utas.edu.au/13609/4/1999_Ling_Elephant_rst.pdf en eng https://eprints.utas.edu.au/13609/4/1999_Ling_Elephant_rst.pdf Ling, JK 1999 , 'Elephant seal oil cargoes from King Island, Bass Strait, 1802-1819: with estimates of numbers killed and size of the original population' , Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, vol. 133, no. 1 , pp. 51-56 , doi:10.26749/rstpp.133.1.51 <http://dx.doi.org/10.26749/rstpp.133.1.51>. cc_utas Royal Society of Tasmania RST Van Diemens Land natural history science ecology taxonomy botany zoology geology geography papers & proceedings Australia UTAS Library Article PeerReviewed 1999 ftunivtasmania https://doi.org/10.26749/rstpp.133.1.51 2020-05-30T07:27:17Z Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) were harvested for their oil at King Island, Bass Strait, from 1802 to 1819, by which time they were virtually extinct at that location and have not returned since. Oil cargo statistics have been collated from various secondary sources; in arriving at annual yields, allowance was made for untallied (unquantified) cargoes and a certain amount of waste and onsite use. Depending on the methods of calculation, between 920 and 1326 tons of oil were produced, almost 750/0 of this in the first three years and 95% by 1807. Some 10 000 adult and sub-adult elephant seals would have had to be slaughtered to generate such yields. The approximate total size of the pristine populations is believed to have been between about 10 000 and 17000, based on the various calculated oil yields and a number of fairly broad assumptions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Elephant Seal Elephant Seals Mirounga leonina Southern Elephant Seals University of Tasmania: UTas ePrints King Island ENVELOPE(-58.100,-58.100,-62.000,-62.000) Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 51 56 |
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Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) were harvested for their oil at King Island, Bass Strait, from 1802 to 1819, by which time they were virtually extinct at that location and have not returned since. Oil cargo statistics have been collated from various secondary sources; in arriving at annual yields, allowance was made for untallied (unquantified) cargoes and a certain amount of waste and onsite use. Depending on the methods of calculation, between 920 and 1326 tons of oil were produced, almost 750/0 of this in the first three years and 95% by 1807. Some 10 000 adult and sub-adult elephant seals would have had to be slaughtered to generate such yields. The approximate total size of the pristine populations is believed to have been between about 10 000 and 17000, based on the various calculated oil yields and a number of fairly broad assumptions. |
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Elephant seal oil cargoes from King Island, Bass Strait, 1802-1819: with estimates of numbers killed and size of the original population |
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Elephant seal oil cargoes from King Island, Bass Strait, 1802-1819: with estimates of numbers killed and size of the original population |
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Elephant seal oil cargoes from King Island, Bass Strait, 1802-1819: with estimates of numbers killed and size of the original population |
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