Dataset

Whale Observations from the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) voyages 1929-30 and 1930-31

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Observations of whales collated from the logs of the two British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Reaserch Expedition (BANZARE) voyages 19-Oct-1929 to 1-April-1930 and 22-Nov-1930 to 19-Mar-1931. Covers six whale species - Blue, Fin, Sei, Minke, Orca and Humpback. Any whale observations which were not identified at the species level have been excluded from this collection.

Citation
Australian Antarctic Data Centre. Whale Observations from the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) voyages 1929-30 and 1930-31.
Published
May 06, 2021 at 02:53
First registration
June 24, 2020 at 14:59
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Contacts

T. Harvey Johnston
British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE)

DATA OFFICER AADC
Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Johnathan Kool

144
total submitted occurrences
144
accepted occurrences
8
taxa
8
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 144
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 144
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 144
100.0%
ON_LAND 1
0.7%

Measurement types

DNA derived data