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Southernmost Whale Catch Positions

Created 18/11/2025

Updated 18/11/2025

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Abrupt Mid-Twentieth Century Decline in Antarctic Sea-Ice Extent from Whaling Records. Format is a WinZip'ed Microsoft Access 2000 database. The northernmost edge of the sea ice was derived from the southernmost positions of whale catches. A supplemental word document is also included with the dataset. This dataset was originally compiled by Bill de la Mare. The fields in this dataset are: record ID latitude mean latitude longitude longitude Interval date season decade id catch Record species ID

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Title Southernmost Whale Catch Positions
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/493f2d98-de90-42b1-876b-e9b6d230e204
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1940 - 07/10/1999
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        42.53906,
        -69.28726
      ],
      [
        160.0,
        -69.28726
      ],
      [
        160.0,
        -60.0
      ],
      [
        42.53906,
        -60.0
      ],
      [
        42.53906,
        -69.28726
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Southernmost Whale Catch Positions". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/southernmost-whale-catch-positions1