Table 2. ρ 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.

	MQ	SG	HD	MA	EI	FL	PV
VLC	0.2 (0.2)	1.6 (0.14)	3.0 (0.25)	3.5 (0.5)	3.5 (0.5)	6.86 (0.86)	20.16 (1.67)

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