Metadata details
BANZARE_logs
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- Citation
- Watts, D.J. (2009) BANZARE ship logs and station lists, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/BANZARE_logs, Accessed: 2026-06-06
- Title
- BANZARE ship logs and station lists
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- Created Date
- 2009-08-06
- Revision Date
- 2019-04-04
- Expected Date of Data Release
- 2009-08-07
- Data Version
- 1
- Parent record
- None
Datasets and documents
Related links
Description
The British Australian (and) New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) was a research expedition into Antarctica between 1929 and 1931, involving two voyages over consecutive Austral summers.
This document describes the ship's log and station list taken from
Biological Organisation and Station List by T. Harvey Johnston, BANZARE Reports, Series B, Vol I, Part 1, pages 1-48
Data are stored in an Access database.
The 5 tables are
banzare_noon_log_1929_1930 and banzare_noon_log_1930_1931
noon positions from page 46-47 - assumed log_date is local noon, latitude and longitude in decimals.
banzare_stations_1929_1930 and banzare_stations_1930_1931
odate is station date (no time is given)
depth is echo depth (metres)
latg and long is refined positions using Google Earth and Kerguelen map on page 14
full_speed_nets_1930_1931
log of full sped nets - see pages 40-44;
time is possibly UTC
distance is travel of ship when net is deployed
depth is possible depth of net in fathoms
tow_speed is ship speed in knots
Quality
Data have been mapped and tracks verified as being consistent. Users should vouch for fine-scale positions such as in the Kerguelen islands area
Access
These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 1929-10-21 - Stop date: 1931-03-24
Spatial Coverages
Data Resolution
- 1 Kilometre(s)
- 1 Kilometre(s)
- 1 Hour(s)
Science Keywords
- EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > INFRASTRUCTURE > TRANSPORTATION
Additional Keywords
- BANZARE
- ships logs
- Aurora
Locations
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Platforms
- SHIPS
Instruments
- VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
Researchers
- watts, dave (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=BANZARE_logs when using these data.
Project
- British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition of 1929-31 (Long Name)
- BANZARE (Short Name)
- INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR (Long Name)
- IPY (Short Name)
- SCAR Marine Biodiversity Information Network (Long Name)
- SCAR-MARBIN (Short Name)
- CENSUS OF ANTARCTIC MARINE LIFE (Long Name)
- CAML (Short Name)
- CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE (Long Name)
- COML (Short Name)
- Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (Long Name)
- EBA (Short Name)
ISO Topic
- OCEANS
- TRANSPORTATION
Dataset Language
- English
Orignating Centre
- Australian Antarctic Division
Dataset Progress
- COMPLETE
IDN Node
- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- AMD
- ANTABIF
Publications
- Johnston, T.H. (1937) Biological Organisation and Station List, BANZARE Reports, B, 1(1), 1-48
Metadata Revision History
2009-08-07 - record created by Dave Watts. 2015-08-19 - record updated by Dave Connell - Basic updates. 2017-03-02 - record updated by Dave Connell - Basic updates. 2019-04-04 - record updated by Dave Connell for ISO compliance.
