Whale catch records from whaling companies based in Australia. Early data are accurate to one degree whilst later records are accurate to one minute of arc.

Citation: (2023): Historic whale catch data from Australian whaling stations (1925-1978). v1.11. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=aus_whale_records&v=1.11

Published: June 28, 2023 at 03:36

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

OBIS Australia
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure

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

38,267

occurrence records

38,267

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

No missing or invalid fields.

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
ON_LAND	822	2.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	34	0.1%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	7	0.0%

Historic whale catch data from Australian whaling stations (1925-1978)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data