Whale Observations from the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Reaserch Expedition (BANZARE) voyages 1929-30 and 1930-31

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10 October 2018
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Description

Observations of whales collated from the logs of the two British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Reaserch Expedition (BANZARE) voyages 19-Oct-1929 to 1-April-1930 and 22-Nov-1930 to 19-Mar-1931. Covers six whale species - Blue, Fin, Sei, Minke, Orca and Humpback. Any whale observations which were not identified at the species level have been excluded from this collection. Original data obtained from http://data.aad.gov.au/digir/DiGIR.php and registered into iOBIS on 2009-01-27. This dataset on OBIS-SEAMAP is a <b>subset</b> of marine mammal, seabird and/or sea turtle records from the dataset on iOBIS (Total number of records: 144) harvested into OBIS-SEAMAP on 2011-10-11.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Johnston TH. (2000) Whale and Seal Observations 1929-31 and 1930-31 Pp 30-65. in Shaughnessy, P.D. (ed.) 2000 Antarctic seals, whales and dolphins of the early twentieth century: Marine mammals of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 (AAE) and the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1929-31 (BANZARE), ANARE Reports 142, 172pp. See Metadata record http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=AMD/AU/ASAC_140.&lt;p&gt;Contact Dave Watts for details on citation details.

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Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

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Contacts

Australian Antarctic Division Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AAD)
OBIS Secretariat
  • Metadata Provider
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
BE
Dave Watts
  • Point Of Contact
Australian Antarctic Division; Australian Antarctic Data Centre
AU

Geographic Coverage

ISW, Indian Ocean - http://marineregions.org/mrgid/1904

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137088

Species Balaenoptera borealis

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137090

Species Balaenoptera musculus

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137091

Species Balaenoptera physalus

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137097

Species Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809)

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137092

Species Megaptera novaeangliae

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137102

Species Orcinus orca

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137119

Species Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1929-10-21 / 1931-03-10

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS