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.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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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.<p>Contact Dave Watts for details on citation details.
Rights
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Restricted
GBIF Registration
This resource has not been registered with GBIF
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| Online dataset | http://iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/599 UTF-8 HTML |
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| Online dataset | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/103150599 UTF-8 HTML |
| Metadata | http://www.vliz.be/imis/iobis/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=3419 UTF-8 HTML |
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
ISW, Indian Ocean - http://marineregions.org/mrgid/1904
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137088
| Species | Balaenoptera borealis |
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urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137090
| Species | Balaenoptera musculus |
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urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137091
| Species | Balaenoptera physalus |
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urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137097
| Species | Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809) |
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urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137092
| Species | Megaptera novaeangliae |
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urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137102
| Species | Orcinus orca |
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urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137119
| Species | Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1929-10-21 / 1931-03-10 |
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Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.iobis.org/obis/resource?id=imis_dasid_3419 |
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