Salsa Shelly - Barrow Island flatback tracking 2009-2010

A project of Western Australian Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking Project.

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Background

This turtle was released from Yacht Club South Beach at Barrow Island. The satellite tracking program is a component of the Gorgon Gas marine turtle project which also encompasses a long term flatback turtle tagging program at Barrow Island and at a reference site at Mundabullangana Station on the mainland. This turtle was selected from over the hundreds of flatback turtles that have returned to nest at Barrow Island this summer.

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location codes (lc) '3', '2', '1'.
• 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 NASA's MODIS 8-Day Sea Surface Temperature data.

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