Hydrurga leptonyx
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Rakiura National Park, aggregated onto a 25 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.
Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.
A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 2 squares of 25 km carry records for Leopard Seal in and around Rakiura National Park, and the 3 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.
Table Mountain National Park is the single atlas park where the Leopard Seal is recorded, though its records concentrate primarily in Australia, Antarctica, and New Zealand. This member of the Phocidae family is represented by 639 open records across eight countries.
Of the 3 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Rakiura National Park, the Leopard Seal is the 3rd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded