Whale catches in the Southern Ocean

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by Australian Antarctic Data Centre on May 12, 2021 Australian Antarctic Data Centre
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https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Whaling
Publication date:
12 May 2021
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Season whale catch records for austral summers from 1931/32 to 1979/80. Data has been aggregated into one degree cells centered on the reported position. Covers five whale species - Blue, Fin, Sei, Minke and Humpback.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 7,122 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Australian Antarctic Data Centre (2018). Whale catches in the Southern Ocean.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Australian Antarctic Data Centre. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 82e33d42-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.  Australian Antarctic Data Centre publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Atlas of Living Australia.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

Point of truth metadata record https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Whaling ASCII DIF 9.9

Contacts

Mike Double
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Australian Antarctic Division
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Tasmania
AU
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DATA OFFICER AADC
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Johnathan Kool
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Geographic Coverage

Southern Ocean.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-67.5, 54.5], North East [-57.5, 105.5]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1932-01-01 / 1980-01-01

Additional Metadata

Marine, harvested by OBIS.

Alternative Identifiers 82e33d42-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=sp_whales