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Loggerhead Sea Turtle

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Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) is the marine animal followed in the study “Elsa · Loggerhead Sea Turtle — OCEARCH animal”. Positions come from a satellite tag. The newest published position was recorded 26 Oct 2026, 5:09 am. 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 Loggerhead Sea Turtle.
Satellite photograph of the latest published position. Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community.
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Elsa · Loggerhead Sea Turtle — OCEARCH animal: 181 newly observed reports.

Movement summary

Window 8 Sept 2026, 9:46 pm → 26 Oct 2026, 5:09 am · 800 accepted reports · algorithm movement-summary/1.0.0

Reported-position distance
772 km
Segments / gaps
1 / 0
Longest gap
not available
Median interval
44 min
Fastest segment
1,446,952.6 km/h between reports
Flagged for review · 889 flags
  • source qc · 800 flags across 800 reports
    Source QC flags: ocearch_animal.
  • implausible displacement rate · 89 flags across 170 reports
    Displacement of 3 km in 0.0 h exceeds the review threshold; may reflect positioning uncertainty, assignment problems or an outlier.

Deployments

TagTechnologyStartedEndedStatusReports
satellite argossatellite_argos26 Oct 2026, 5:09 am26 Oct 2026, 5:09 amReporting800

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References

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

Generated 26 Oct 2026, 1:33 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.