Marine fauna survey of the Vestfold Hills and Rauer Island, 1981-82

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/AADC-00047
Publication date:
12 May 2021
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

This dataset is a description of the shallow coastal marine fauna found in the Vestfold Hills and Rauer Island area, Antarctica. The results are from various surveys in this region over a 12 month period in 1981-82, and a full listing of species (with photographs) is given in the documentation. It includes benthic, pelagic and planktonic organisms of the coast as well as those that inhabit the ice-water interface.

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 366 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). Marine fauna survey of the Vestfold Hills and Rauer Island, 1981-82.

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: 8647dc9a-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/AADC-00047 ASCII DIF 9.9

Contacts

Mark J. Tucker
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Harry R. Burton
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Australian Antarctic Division
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Geographic Coverage

Vestfold Hills and Rauer Island area, Antarctica.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-68.86, 77.684], North East [-68.35, 78.555]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1981-12-06 / 1982-02-13

Additional Metadata

Marine, harvested by OBIS.

Alternative Identifiers 8647dc9a-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=vestfold_marine