�� distances (��s.d.) between the mtDNA pools of Victoria Land Coast (VLC) samples and those of potential source populations, representing all major extant southern elephant seal breeding colonies.

VLC: Victoria Land Coast; MQ: Macquarie Island; SG: South Georgia Island; HD: Heard Island; MA: Marion Island; EI: Elephant Island; FL: Falklands; PV: Peninsula Vald��s. Calculations for SG and HD were based on 240 bp of sequence data (see Materials and Methods), and are likely underestimates.