Abstract
One aspect of the program of studies of marine turtles being carried out at the University of Florida' has been a small tagging project at Ascension Island, in the South Atlantic between Brazil and Africa. The aim was to test the assumption that the green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas, is capable of long-range open-water navigation. Our much more extensive tagging data from Tortuguero, Costa Rica (3,000 green turtles tagged; 120 international returns) have shown clearly that Chelonia is a periodic long-distance migrant. The mainland location of that nesting ground, however, makes it difficult to prove that the turtles do not locate the place by following shorelines.
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