Metadata details
Whaling
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- Citation
- de la Mare, B. (1999) Southernmost Whale Catch Positions, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.26179/5d6c6cfaeed5e, Accessed: 2026-05-13
- Title
- Southernmost Whale Catch Positions
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- DOI
- doi:10.26179/5d6c6cfaeed5e
- Created Date
- 1999-10-06
- Revision Date
- 2019-09-02
- Parent record
- None
Datasets and documents
Related links
Description
Abrupt Mid-Twentieth Century Decline in Antarctic Sea-Ice Extent from Whaling Records. Format is a WinZip'ed Microsoft Access 2000 database. The northernmost edge of the sea ice was derived from the southernmost positions of whale catches.
A supplemental word document is also included with the dataset.
This dataset was originally compiled by Bill de la Mare.
The fields in this dataset are:
record ID
latitude
mean latitude
longitude
longitude Interval
date
season
decade
id
catch Record
species ID
Access
These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 1940-01-01 - Stop date: 1999-10-07
Spatial Coverages
Science Keywords
- EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS
Additional Keywords
- CATCHRECORD
- DECADE
- DATE
- LATITUDE
- ID
- LONGITUDE
- LONGITUDEINTERVAL
- RECORDID
- MEANLATITUDE
- SPECIESID
- SEASON
Locations
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Platforms
- NOT APPLICABLE
Instruments
- NOT APPLICABLE
Researchers
- de la mare, bill (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)
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=Whaling when using these data.
