Dataset

HMAP Dataset 04: World Whaling

EurOBIS Oceans Past Initiative Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This dataset includes worldwide data on whale catches and effort, whaling statistics, whaling technology, whale oil and whaling logbooks. The data covers the time period 1700-2000.

Citation
T.D. Smith ed. 'World Whaling Database: Individual Whale Catches, North Atlantic' in J.H Nicholls (comp.) HMAP Data Pages (https://oceanspast.org/hmap_db.php)
Published
September 17, 2025 at 10:12
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=hmap_04
Archive
https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=hmap_04

Contacts

Tim Smith
World Whaling Project

Oceans Past Initiative
Oceans Past Initiative

World Whaling Project
World Whaling Project

John Nicholls
The University of Dublin, Trinity College

64,765
total submitted occurrences
63,714
accepted occurrences
12
taxa
10
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 64,765
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 64,765
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 64,765
100.0%
scientificNameID 1,051
1.6%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 64,765
100.0%
ON_LAND 2,990
4.6%
NO_MATCH 1,051
1.6%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 1,051
1.6%

Measurement types

DNA derived data