Name: Happywhale - Humpback whale in South Pacific Ocean
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Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Abstract: Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales.

Citation: Happywhale. 2026. Happywhale - Humpback whale in South Pacific Ocean. Version 1.4.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.82144/4135f1a5.

Published: January 15, 2026 at 22:20

License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1768

Contacts:

Ted Cheeseman
Happywhale.com

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

29,451

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters		678	2.3%
maximumDepthInMeters	29,451		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	29,451		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		29,451	100.0%
ON_LAND		63	0.2%

Happywhale - Humpback whale in South Pacific Ocean

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data