Dataset

Cemetery Beach Port Hedland Flatback Tracking Project 2009/2010 (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

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Original provider: Pendoley Environmental Dataset credits: Data provider West Australian Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking Project Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT) Project partner BHP Billiton Quantum ProjectCare for Hedland AssociationPendoley Environmental Pty Ltd Project sponsor or sponsor description BHP Billiton Quantum Project Abstract: Flatback turtles are being satellite tracked from Cemetery Beach in the town of Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. This is the second year of this project and with 5 transmitters deployed in 2008/2009 and an addtional 10 transmitters deployed during the 2009/2010 season. The project is being sponsored by BHPBIO as part of the Quantum Project. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.

Citation: Pendoley K. 2025. Cemetery Beach Port Hedland Flatback Tracking Project 2009/2010. 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=357). https://doi.org/10.82144/a5ecb02d.

Published: October 07, 2025 at 22:55

URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_552_1deg

Kellie Pendoley
Western Australian Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking Project

Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool
seaturtle.org

41
occurrence records
1
taxa
1
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 41
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 41
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 41
100.0%
ON_LAND 5
12.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data