Collection Details
Bird observations from South African BIOMASS voyages, Mawson and Prydz Bay region, 1984 and 1985View list of biodiversity data collections |
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Collection Details
- Custodian
- BIOMASS group and collated by British Antarctic Survey
- Description
- South Africa conducted 2 voyages for the BIOMASS (Biological Investigations of Marine Antarctic Systems and Stocks) program in the vicinity of Pyrdz Bay. This complements bird data collected from the Australian voyages ADBEX2 and SIBEX2.
- Domain
- Marine
- Taxa Groups
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Birds,
List 17 taxa from this collection - Collection Status
- Data collection complete
- Acknowledgements
- Data from SCAR-MarBIN website - dataset title is Biological Investigations of Marine Antarctic Systems and Stocks (BIOMASS) Bird Observations. Voyage details in Southern Ocean ecology: the BIOMASS perspective (1994) ed. El-Sayed, Sayed Z. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- Linked to the following Bioregions
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Coastal Continental Antarctic - Mac Robertson Land Coast
Coastal Continental Antarctic - Mawson Coast
Data Details
- Data links
- Search the 1,173 observations belonging to this collection.
- Map
- No map exists.
- Spatial Coverage
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44° 54' 03.6" S to 66° 49' 44.4" S | -44.9010° to -66.8290° 47° 57' 00.0" E to 144° 12' 00.0" E | 47.9500° to 144.2000° - Date Range of Collection
- 27-Mar-1984 to 8-Mar-1985
- Data collected from the following voyage(s)
Voyage Observation count Search 1983/84 RSA SIBEX I (details) 804 search 
1984/85 AFS SIBEX II (details) 367 search - Metadata
- None are linked at present