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Whale catches in the Southern Ocean, 1931-1980

Created 17/11/2025

Updated 17/11/2025

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Season whale catch records for austral summers from 1931/32 to 1979/80. Data have been aggregated into one degree cells centered on the reported position. The dataset covers five whale species - Blue, Fin, Sei, Minke and Humpback. These data have been exposed as an OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System) resource via DiGIR (Distributed Generic Information Retrieval (DiGIR)).

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Title Whale catches in the Southern Ocean, 1931-1980
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/0b61677f-a457-4b6e-985a-7eb6626b126b
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1932 - 01/01/1980
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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    [
      [
        54.5,
        -67.5
      ],
      [
        105.5,
        -67.5
      ],
      [
        105.5,
        -57.5
      ],
      [
        54.5,
        -57.5
      ],
      [
        54.5,
        -67.5
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Whale catches in the Southern Ocean, 1931-1980". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/whale-catches-in-the-southern-ocean-1931-19801