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The Seals of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2009

R. M. Laws
R. M. Laws
Affiliation:
Falkland Islands Dependencies Scientific Bureau
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The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey has established and maintained a number of antarctic bases since 1945. They are located on the Graham Land peninsula, in the South Shetland and South Orkney Islands, and at South Georgia; over the years a great deal of general information about the various species of seals has accumulated. I have spent a total of thirty-six months in the Dependencies between 1948 and 1951 and some weeks in the Falkland Islands, occupied with a special study of the elephant seal, although opportunities were taken for work on other species. As a result we now have a fairly comprehensive picture of the status of the various pinniped species in this sector of the southern oceans.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , August 1953 , pp. 87 - 97
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1953

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