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. 2025. Happywhale - Humpback whale in Southern Ocean. Version 1.2.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org//10.82144/762d6cfa.

Published: November 17, 2025 at 22:18

URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1767

Ted Cheeseman
Happywhale.com

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

17,157

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters		244	1.4%
maximumDepthInMeters	17,157		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	17,157		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		17,157	100.0%
ON_LAND		172	1.0%

Happywhale - Humpback whale in Southern Ocean

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data