The incredible migration of green sea turtles migrating to Raine Island Australia, to lay

The incredible migration of green sea turtles migrating to Raine Island Australia, to lay eggs.



Females travel through featureless monumental expanses of open ocean to return to where they were born, the place their mothers chose to nest.

Coastlines have unique magnetic signatures, female sea turtles imprint these. They later use this 'memory' as an internal compass after spending a life at sea, navigating back on epic journeys to natal beaches without visual cues.

This is called magnetoreception:

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/drone-footage-shows-twice-the-number-of-green-turtles-at-rookery-than-previously-thought-20200610-p5516p.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982207008196https://somee.social/posts/745674
The incredible migration of green sea turtles migrating to Raine Island Australia, to lay