Records of collisions between vessels and whales in Australian waters between 1872 and 2015 as described in the paper Peel, D., Smith, J. N., & Childerhouse, S. (2018). Vessel Strike of Whales in Australia: The Challenges of Analysis of Historical Incident Data. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 69. As many locations as possible have been geo-referenced based on the site description. Some are too vague to do so. Only clearly identified taxa are in this dataset. For the complete list, including unidentified cetaceans, see the citation for the complete dataset.

Citation: Peel, David; Smith, Joshua; Childerhouse, Simon (2018): Historic Vessel Strikes with Whales in Australian Waters. v1. CSIRO. Data Collection. https://doi.org/10.25919/5be5086a6fda1

Published: June 08, 2022 at 02:07

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=historic_vessel_whale_strikes

David Pell
CSIRO Data61

Joshua Smith
CSIRO Data61

Simon Childerhouse
CSIRO Data61

OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
decimalLatitude	27		31.4%
decimalLongitude	27		31.4%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_COORD		27	31.4%
ON_LAND		2	2.3%

Historic Vessel Strikes with Whales in Australian Waters (1872-2015)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data