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Historic Vessel Strikes with Whales in Australian Waters

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

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Records of collisions between vessels and whales in Australian waters between 1872 and 2015 as described in the paper Peel, D., Smith, J. N., & Childerhouse, S. (2018). Vessel Strike of Whales in Australia: The Challenges of Analysis of Historical Incident Data. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 69. This record has been created to facilitate access to the original data collection at https://doi.org/10.25919/5be5086a6fda1

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Title Historic Vessel Strikes with Whales in Australian Waters
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/6286e06d-65ea-42e7-af35-f898011cc806
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
David.Peel@data61.csiro.au
Reference Period 15/12/1872 - 31/12/2015
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Historic Vessel Strikes with Whales in Australian Waters". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/historic-vessel-strikes-with-whales-in-australian-waters