
%0 Journal Article
%A Limpus, CJ 
%A Parmenter, CJ 
%A Baker, V 
%A Fleay, A 
%T The Crab Island Sea Turtle Rookery in the North-Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria
%J Wildlife Research
%D 1983/02/01
%V 10
%N 1
%P 173-184
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/WR9830173
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/WR9830173 
%X Crab I. in north Queensland supports a large all-year nesting population of Chelonia depressa and occasional nesting by Eretmochelys imbricata and Lepidochelys olivacea. Measurements of nesting turtles, eggs, nests, hatchlings are summarized. A preliminary model of C. depressa egg and hatchling mortality gave values for the proportion of eggs producing hatchlings into the sea ranging from 48% to 89% in different months. The nesting distribution of C. depressa is reviewed and Crab I. identified as its most significant breeding beach. 
