Ground based sightings of Weddell seals resting/breeding on sea-ice or land in the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica. Data locality mapped to a one by one kilometre grid.

Citation: See metadata record http://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=AMD/AU/AADC-00048

Published: January 20, 2015 at 02:38

URL: https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=weddell_sightings

Ben Raymond
Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Harry Burton

21,172

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
decimalLatitude	168	0.8%
decimalLongitude	177	0.8%
eventDate	21,172	100.0%
occurrenceStatus	21,172	100.0%
scientificNameID	21,172	100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
ON_LAND	6,057	28.6%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	595	2.8%
NO_COORD	180	0.9%

Weddell Seal Sightings, Vestfold Hills, Antarctica

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data