GPS tracks of chinstrap penguins at the South Orkney Islands, 2011-2019 [Version 2.0]

This dataset comprises Global Positioning System (GPS) data for chinstrap penguins, Pygoscelid antarcticus, at the South Orkney Islands (Signy, Monroe, Powell and Laurie island) from 2011 to 2019. Chinstrap penguins were fitted with GPS tags between December to January (austral summer) to better understand their movement for seabird conservation and management. The data includes GPS positions at specified intervals for deployed tags, with additional metadata on the morphology of the birds, their deployment, and breeding.

Work was carried out by personnel at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and was funded by Natural Environment Research Council (UK) core funding to BAS.

This is an updated version of a previous dataset. There have been additional tracks included with further quality control carried out.

Alternate title: Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/02019

Date (Publication): 2025-03-12

Citation identifier: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/02019

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre	Trathan, P.N., Lowther, A., Manco, F., Ratcliffe, N., & Manthorpe, S.J.	pdc@bas.ac.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Keywords

NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Diurnal Movements
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Feeding Habitat
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Food-web Dynamics
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Indicator Species
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Population Dynamics
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Range Changes
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Trophic Dynamics
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology

BAS Free-text keywords

Chinstrap penguin
GPS
Global Positioning System
Pygoscelid antarcticus
Signy Island
Tracking

Use limitation: This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Language: English

Topic category

Biota

Begin date: 2011-12-29

End date: 2019-01-24

Reference system identifier: OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Distribution format

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey		pdc@bas.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
http	http://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=8f8ccba5-01af-4b00-8a3b-c3c85b24bf92	GET DATA

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification: INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines

Date

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Statement: Values which were null or reported as 0.00 in the latitude and longitude columns were removed.

This is a version 2 of a previous dataset, that included GPS and TDR tags together. Errors found in the metadata and data were rectified in this version, which also includes a broader spatial and temporal coverage of tracks.

Where the sex of the bird was not known, ''U'' was used in the metadata file.