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Population abundance, trend, structure and distribution of the endangered Antarctic blue whale

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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This is a parent record for data collected from AAS project 4102. Project 4102 also follows on from ASAC project 2683, "Passive acoustic monitoring of antarctic marine mammals" (see the related metadata record at the provided URL). Public Summary: Half a century ago the Antarctic blue whale was perilously close to extinction. Over 350,000 were killed before the remaining few were fully protected. A decade ago this elusive and poorly understood species was estimated to be less than 5% of its pre-whaling abundance. This multi-national, circumpolar project will develop and apply powerful new techniques to survey these rare whales and gain an insight into their recovery and ecology. The project is the flagship of the Southern Ocean Research Partnership - an International Whaling Commission endorsed collaborative program.

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Title Population abundance, trend, structure and distribution of the endangered Antarctic blue whale
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/20205d9a-ee0b-45a4-9087-bdb9a79cad61
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/07/2012 - 30/06/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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        140.0,
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      ],
      [
        170.0,
        -70.0
      ],
      [
        170.0,
        -40.0
      ],
      [
        140.0,
        -40.0
      ],
      [
        140.0,
        -70.0
      ]
    ]
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}
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Population abundance, trend, structure and distribution of the endangered Antarctic blue whale". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/population-abundance-trend-structure-and-distribution-of-the-endangered-antarctic-blue-whale