Metadata details
VWHALE_voyage_track_2013
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- Citation
- Double, M. and Andrews-Goff, V. (2017) The track of the VWHALE voyage of the Australian Antarctic Program, February - March 2013, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/VWHALE_voyage_track_2013, Accessed: 2026-05-02
- Title
- The track of the VWHALE voyage of the Australian Antarctic Program, February - March 2013
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- Created Date
- 2013-05-01
- Revision Date
- 2017-11-08
- Parent record
- AAS_4102_2013_Antarctic_Blue_Whale_Voyage
Datasets and documents
Related links
Description
Voyage track information for the VWHALE voyage of the Australian Antarctic program, February-March, 2013.
The data are available as either NMEA files or shapefiles.
Voyage objective - Whale acoustics and tagging off the ice edge of the Ross Sea
Voyage duration - 30 Jan 2013 to 17 Mar 2013.
Ship - Amaltal Explorer
See the parent metadata record for more information about the voyage.
Access
These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 2013-01-30 - Stop date: 2013-03-17
Spatial Coverages
Science Keywords
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS
Additional Keywords
- Whales
- AMALTAL EXPLORER
Locations
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
Platforms
- SHIPS
Instruments
- None
Researchers
- double, mike (INVESTIGATOR)
- andrews-goff, virginia (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)
- smith, david (TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)
Use Constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=VWHALE_voyage_track_2013 when using these data.
