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
Expected Date of Data Release
1999-10-07
Data Version
1
Parent record
None

Datasets and documents

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    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

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    Access

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

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -60
    Southernmost:
    -69.28726

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    42.53906
    Easternmost:
    160

    Science Keywords

    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.

    Project

      ISO Topic

      • BIOTA
      • OCEANS

      Dataset Language

      • English

      Orignating Centre

      • Australian Antarctic Division

      Dataset Progress

      • COMPLETE

      IDN Node

      • AMD/AU
      • CEOS
      • AMD

      Metadata Revision History

        2019-09-02 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

      Creative Commons License