Collection Details

Whale Observations from the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) voyages 1929-30 and 1930-31 View list of biodiversity data collections

©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1929 Catalogue id 10166B3 Caption Near Proclamation Island Photographer Douglas, Eric

Collection Details

Custodian

T. H. Johnston

Description

Observations of whales collated from the logs of the two British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) voyages 19-Oct-1929 to 1-April-1930 and 22-Nov-1930 to 19-Mar-1931. Covers six whale species - Blue, Fin, Sei, Minke, Orca and Humpback. Any whale observations which were not identified at the species level have been excluded from this collection.

Domain

Marine

Taxa Groups

Whales,

List 8 taxa from this collection

Collection Status

Data collection complete

Acknowledgements

Johnston TH. (2000) Whale and Seal Observations 1929-31 and 1930-31 Pp 30-65. in Shaughnessy, P.D. (ed.) 2000 Antarctic seals, whales and dolphins of the early twentieth century: Marine mammals of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 (AAE) and the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1929-31 (BANZARE), ANARE Reports 142, 172pp. See Metadata record http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=AMD/AU/ASAC_140.

DiGIR Details

See International activities tab for details on publishing data to other repositories.

Resource Code: -	banzare_whales
Resource Name: -	Whale Observations from the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) voyages 1929-30 and 1930-31
Keywords: -	whales, BANZARE
Basis of Record: -	Observation

For list of all collections published via DiGIR, see AADC DiGIR collections and the DiGIR harvesting point if you wish to harvest records

Data Details

Data links

Search the 144 observations belonging to this collection.

Map

No map exists.

Spatial Coverage

36° 56' 49.2" S to 66° 58' 58.8" S	|	-36.9470° to -66.9830°
19° 40' 08.4" E to 177° 00' 07.2" E	|	19.6690° to 177.0020°

Date Range of Collection

21-Oct-1929 to 10-Mar-1931

Data collected from the following voyage(s)

Voyage	Observation count	Search
1929/30 1st voyage BANZARE (details)	82	search
1930/31 2rd voyage BANZARE (details)	62	search

Metadata

ASAC_140 - Marine Mammal Report of the AAE and BANZARE