National Whale and Dolphin Sightings and Strandings Database

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published on 10 October 2018

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Description

The National Whale and Dolphin Sightings and Strandings Database records reported sightings of whales and dolphins in Australian waters and maintains details of stranding events around the Australian coastline. This resource currently only show the sighting records.

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

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has not been registered with GBIF

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Animal behaviour

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

Contacts

OBIS Secretariat
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
BE
Dave Watts
  • Custodian Steward
Australian Antarctic Division; Australian Antarctic Data Centre
AU

Geographic Coverage

Australia - http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2147

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

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS