Dataset

Seabird observations in Australian waters and the Southern Ocean from voyages of the fisheries patrol vessel Oceanic Viking (2005-2007)

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Seabird observations by Neil Cheshire (ships officer) from the fisheries patrol vessel Oceanic Viking. Records have been digitised from paper recording sheets that are available upon request.

Citation
Cheshire N, OBIS Australia (2025). Seabird observations in Australian waters and the Southern Ocean from voyages of the fisheries patrol vessel Oceanic Viking (2005-2007). Version 1.8. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Occurrence dataset. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=seabirds_oceanic_viking&v=1.8
Published
December 29, 2025 at 05:09
First registration
January 05, 2022 at 05:17
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License
URL
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=seabirds_oceanic_viking
Archive
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=seabirds_oceanic_viking

Contacts

Neil Cheshire
Private

OBIS Australia
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure

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

2,492
total submitted occurrences
2,455
accepted occurrences
9,121
measurements and facts
76
taxa
68
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
decimalLatitude 34
1.4%
decimalLongitude 34
1.4%
scientificNameID 2
0.1%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_COORD 34
1.4%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 6
0.2%
ON_LAND 6
0.2%
NO_MATCH 2
0.1%
NOT_MARINE 1
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data