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Historic ANARE ship-based wildlife observations from 1947 to 1982.

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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Ship-based observations of birds, seals and whales from the original 'ANARE Bird Log' books have been recovered into a single repository of sightings and associated abiotic information. ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) is the historic acronym for these voyages. A few voyages have been included that were not part of ANARE but have Australian observers or volunteer observers. Voyages start from the 1947/48 austral season up to 1982/83 with an average of 3 voyages per season. There are a few voyages where there is no data. It is not known if either no bird observations were undertaken during this period or that the bird logs exist if observations were undertaken. Current counts are birds, seals and whales Observing platforms include the following ships - Wyatt Earp, Tottan, River Fitzroy, Norsel, Kista Dan, Thala Dan, Magga Dan, Nella Dan, Lady Franklin and Nanok S and a single voyage from the private yacht Solo. The quality and quantity of abiotic data associated with observations such as air temperature, sea ice cover etc vary immensely from voyage to voyage. Where possible this data has been entered. This dataset contains very little information on estimates of survey effort and cannot be used to derive useful presence/absence spatial coverages of species during this period. It is purely sighting data only.

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Title Historic ANARE ship-based wildlife observations from 1947 to 1982.
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/07794c44-1bc3-4d9b-a32f-52a2ae0e0412
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/06/1947 - 31/12/1982
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Historic ANARE ship-based wildlife observations from 1947 to 1982.". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/historic-anare-ship-based-wildlife-observations-from-1947-to-1982