The tracked flights of 14 non-breeding Wandering Albatrosses captured
in Australia and New Zealand provided 3946 locations in the Tasman Sea
, around southern Australia, and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Nearly all of the locations (98.7%) were between 30 degrees S and 50
degrees S, a zone where circumpolar weather systems enable albatrosses
to fly in any direction and thus exploit fully this southern environm
ent, It is also a zone where currently only the limited Exclusive Econ
omic Zones offer a potential for enforceable legislative protection of
this endangered species from the hazards of international longline fi
sheries.