Metadata details

AADC-00073

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Citation
Williams, D. (1999) Aurora Australis Voyage 1 (THIRST) 1993-94 Demersal Fish Data, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/AADC-00073, Accessed: 2026-07-26
Title
Aurora Australis Voyage 1 (THIRST) 1993-94 Demersal Fish Data
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
Created Date
1999-10-07
Revision Date
2025-04-03
Expected Date of Data Release
1999-10-07
Data Version
1
Parent record
Historical_Fish_data

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    Description

    The data associated with this record is accessible via the parent record - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/Historical_Fish_data

    This dataset contains the data from Voyage 1 1993-94 of the Aurora Australis. The observations were taken from around Heard Island between August and September 1993. The data contains temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen and nutrient data from a CTD survey and the results from various pelagic fish trawl surveys. The major species were Champsocephalus gunnari, Champsocephalus rhinoceratus, Lepidonotoften squamifrons and Dissostichus eleginoides. Numbers, species identity, guts and gonad data were obtained. This is a subset of the data for the whole voyage.

    A Microsoft Access database containing data from this cruise, plus several others is available for download from the provided URL. The Entry ID's of the other metadata records also related to this data are:

    AADC-00038
    AADC-00068
    AADC-00073
    AADC-00075
    AADC-00080
    AADC-00082
    c88_data

    The fields in this dataset are:

    Cruises
    Date
    Location
    Latitude
    Longitude
    Species
    Gear
    Length
    Weight
    Sex
    Gonad
    Eye
    Otolith
    Stomach
    Lifestage
    Family

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    Access

    Access to the data is via the parent metadata record.

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -51.52242
    Southernmost:
    -54.68653

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    71.23535
    Easternmost:
    75.76172

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

    • Cruises
    • Date
    • Length
    • Gear
    • Species
    • Longitude
    • Location
    • Latitude
    • Weight
    • Sex
    • Stomach
    • Gonad
    • Eye
    • Otolith
    • Lifestage
    • Family

    Locations

    • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
    • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

    Platforms

    • SHIPS
    • R/V Aurora Australis

    Instruments

    • TRAWL

    Researchers

    • williams, dick (INVESTIGATOR,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=AADC-00073 when using these data.

    Project

      ISO Topic

      • BIOTA
      • GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
      • OCEANS

      Dataset Language

      • English

      Orignating Centre

      • Australian Antarctic Division

      Dataset Progress

      • COMPLETE

      IDN Node

      • CEOS
      • AMD/AU
      • AMD

      Metadata Revision History

        2014-09-08 - record updated by Dave Connell. 2017-03-21 - record updated by Dave Connell to add a parent ID and remove the data link. 2025-04-03 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

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