Green sea turtle migration route
12 Green sea turtle tracks from animals tagged in Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean. Pick one and press play to draw its route day by day.
- Scientific name
- Chelonia mydas
- Tagged in
- Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean
- Years recorded
- 2012 to 2019
- Animals on this page
- 12 (of 32 in the dataset, longest records first)
Drawing the map.
Records by animal
| Animal | Recorded | Days | Distance | Longest day | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 117568a | 2012-10-23 ~ 2014-04-29 | 475 | 910 km | 50 km | 1: British Indian Ocean Territory |
| 117569a | 2012-10-24 ~ 2014-01-19 | 428 | 2,924 km | 135 km | 1: British Indian Ocean Territory |
| 52223 | 2018-07-09 ~ 2019-07-28 | 380 | 777 km | 53 km | 1: British Indian Ocean Territory |
| 117568b | 2015-07-25 ~ 2016-07-25 | 359 | 3,416 km | 124 km | 1: British Indian Ocean Territory |
| 52202 | 2018-07-07 ~ 2019-05-28 | 322 | 2,127 km | 122 km | 1: British Indian Ocean Territory |
| 52221 | 2018-07-08 ~ 2019-05-11 | 298 | 1,997 km | 126 km | 1: British Indian Ocean Territory |
| 52214 | 2018-07-06 ~ 2019-05-02 | 294 | 361 km | 71 km | 1: British Indian Ocean Territory |
| 41100 | 2018-07-04 ~ 2019-04-17 | 281 | 2,893 km | 123 km | 1: British Indian Ocean Territory |
| 21914b | 2015-07-27 ~ 2016-06-02 | 272 | 355 km | 55 km | 1: British Indian Ocean Territory |
| 117573 | 2015-07-26 ~ 2016-04-25 | 269 | 509 km | 7 km | None (at sea) |
| 61811 | 2012-10-13 ~ 2013-08-01 | 241 | 3,995 km | 116 km | 2: British Indian Ocean Territory, Somalia |
| 52222 | 2018-07-09 ~ 2019-02-28 | 224 | 3,944 km | 133 km | 1: British Indian Ocean Territory |
Distance adds up straight lines between one point per day. The real path was longer.
Countries are counted only where a daily point falls inside a border. Points at sea are not counted.
Red List status
We only show a status after a person has checked it on the IUCN site. Not checked yet.
Where this record comes from
Citation (as given)
Hays GC, Esteban N, Rattray A. 2024. Data from: Study "Green turtles (Chelonia Mydas); Hays; Chagos Archipelago, Western Indian Ocean". Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.313
License: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
Original data (DOI): doi:10.5441/001/1.313
We reduced the original data to one point per day and removed points that jump away from the days around them.