Husvik

On South Georgia, we operate from the old managers villa in Husvik. This old house is now in a very good shape thanks to the South Georgia Government, the South Georgia Heritage Trust and many volunteers.

First deployment in February 2008

In the top left corner is South America and at the bottom is the Antarctic Peninsula. This time some animals stay close to the island of South Georgia, while others headed to the south or to the east.

One animal left the island and swam to the northeast. This is Bernt. We tagged him already in 2005. In that year he headed into the same direction, roughly to Tristan da Cunha. Then he came back to South Georgia and did the same loop again about 6 month later. It looks like he is doing the same again.

The figure on the left shows a view from South America across South Georgia to the Antarctic Continent. On the bottom right corner is South America and in the top right corner is the Antarctic Peninsula.

In the middle is South Georgia and the colored ribbons starting there, show the temperature encountered by the seals and measured by the CTD-SRDLs. Bernts track in the north (the one to the bottom left) shows the warmer waters north of the Antarctic Convergence.

Second deployment in October 2008

In the top left corner is South America and at the bottom is the Antarctic Peninsula. This time some animals stay close to the island of South Georgia, while others headed to the south or to the east.

This time we only tagged females and they all went more northerly. But still, the elephantseals migrated to the north and east. This is exactley the spot, where we would like to get data from. Fantastic!

Third deployment in February 2009

In the top left corner is South America and at the bottom is the Antarctic Continent. Again, most of the animals went to the east.

Fourth deployment in October 2009

These animals are still out there and were tagged in October 2009. The picture on the right shows their locations until mid January, when they return to moult.