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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
Expected Date of Data Release
2017-11-08
Data Version
1
Parent record
AAS_4102_2013_Antarctic_Blue_Whale_Voyage

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    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.

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    Access

    These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -41.4717
    Southernmost:
    -70.0378

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    140.1833
    Easternmost:
    179.9974

    Science Keywords

    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.

    Project

      ISO Topic

      • BIOTA
      • OCEANS

      Dataset Language

      • ENGLISH

      Orignating Centre

      • Australian Antarctic Division

      Dataset Progress

      • COMPLETE

      IDN Node

      • AMD
      • AMD/AU
      • CEOS

      Metadata Revision History

        2013-05-01 - record created by Dave Connell with information provided by David Smith. 2013-05-07 - Personnel edited by David Smith. 2017-11-08 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data.

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