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Tupelo

Leatherback Sea Turtle

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Leatherback Sea Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) is the marine animal followed in the study “Tupelo · Leatherback Sea Turtle — OCEARCH animal”. Positions come from a satellite tag. The newest published position was recorded 25 Oct 2026, 5:59 pm. This is an OCEARCH animal. This is a published observation, not a live location.

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Satellite photograph centred on the latest published position of this Leatherback Sea Turtle.
Satellite photograph of the latest published position. Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community.
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Tupelo · Leatherback Sea Turtle — OCEARCH animal: 264 newly observed reports.

Movement summary

Window 19 Sept 2026, 4:24 pm → 25 Oct 2026, 5:59 pm · 800 accepted reports · algorithm movement-summary/1.0.0

Reported-position distance
1,280 km
Segments / gaps
1 / 0
Longest gap
not available
Median interval
18 min
Fastest segment
9,689,004.7 km/h between reports
Flagged for review · 871 flags
  • source qc · 800 flags across 800 reports
    Source QC flags: ocearch_animal.
  • implausible displacement rate · 71 flags across 134 reports
    Displacement of 0 km in 0.0 h exceeds the review threshold; may reflect positioning uncertainty, assignment problems or an outlier.

Deployments

TagTechnologyStartedEndedStatusReports
satellite argossatellite_argos25 Oct 2026, 5:59 pm25 Oct 2026, 5:59 pmReporting800

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References

  1. Tupelo is an OCEARCH animal. Tracking data courtesy of OCEARCH (ocearch.org/tracker). link

Generated 26 Oct 2026, 1:34 pm under publication policy policy:atn-erddap:default@1,policy:crossref:metadata@1,policy:gbif:default@1,policy:motus@1,policy:obis:default@1,policy:ocearch:default@1,policy:otn-geoserver:default@1,policy:stc:default@1.