Whale log - observations from ANARE voyages

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published on 10 October 2018
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10 October 2018
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Description

Ship-based observations of whales sightings from the original 'ANARE Whale Log' books have been recovered into a single repository of sightings. ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) is the historic acronym for these voyages.

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:

Watts, D. (2009) Whale log - observations from ANARE voyages , Australian Antarctic Data Centre - CAASM Metadata (http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/)

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; Biodiversity; Incidental sightings; Southern Ocean; Whales

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

Online dataset http://iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/607 UTF-8 HTML
Metadata http://www.vliz.be/imis/iobis/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=1953 UTF-8 HTML

Contacts

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

Geographic Coverage

Antarctica - http://marineregions.org/mrgid/1926

Bounding Coordinates South West [45, 62], North East [71, 159]

Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2688

Infraorder Cetacea

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1991-02-07 / 1997-03-30

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers http://ipt.iobis.org/obis/resource?id=imis_dasid_1953