c4a0421a-9b68-4f01-b559-2f811c5e6a75 urn:uuid eng UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2025-06-23T15:14:05 creation ISO 19115 2016 Marine Mammal Observations by Greenpeace c4a0421a-9b68-4f01-b559-2f811c5e6a75 Dataset of marine mammal observations made in the Southern Ocean from late 1998 to early 2000. Further information about the data are included in a word document in the download. The data are held in excel spreadsheets. The word document mentioned above lists the column headings for the excel spreadsheets. The fields in this dataset are: date time species Number of animals Distance Bearing Heading Initial Cue Behaviour Latitude Longitude Effort status Notes Wind speed Wind direction Actual wind speed Actual wind direction Sea State Cloud cover Visibility Boat speed Boat course Speed made good Course made good Temperature Wave Height Weather Depth Swell height More notes {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[55.42, -68.59], [179.4, -68.59], [179.4, -33.1], [55.42, -33.1], [55.42, -68.59]]]} 55.42 179.4 -68.59 -33.1 AMD AMD/AU BEARING BEHAVIOUR BOAT COURSE BOAT SPEED CEOS CLOUD COVER DATE DEPTH DISTANCE DOLPHIN EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > PELAGIC EFFORT STATUS GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR HEADING INITIAL CUE LATITUDE LONGITUDE MAMMAL MARINE NUMBER OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN PORPOISE SEA STATE SEAL SHIPS SOUTHERN OCEAN SPECIES SWELL HEIGHT TEMPERATURE TIME VISIBILITY VISUAL OBSERVATIONS WAVE HEIGHT WEATHER WHALE WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED GET DATA documentDigital Download page for the data HTML VIEW RELATED INFORMATION documentDigital Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset HTML Creative Commons by Attribution logo documentDigital PNG