68ae7a3d-690e-4397-9568-7eb50909de33 urn:uuid eng UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2025-06-23T09:02:36 creation ISO 19115 2016 Whale log - observations from ANARE voyages 68ae7a3d-690e-4397-9568-7eb50909de33 Ship-based observations of whales sightings from the original 'ANARE Whale Log' books have been recovered into a single repository of sightings. ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) is the historic acronym for these voyages. Currently there are data from 4 voyages, from the 1990's. Further data will be entered from existing Whale log datasheets on an ongoing basis. Observing platforms currently only include the ship, Aurora Australis. 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 these data have been entered. This dataset contains no 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. Species distribution data are made available to SCAR-MarBIN (http://www.scarmarbin.be), OBIS and GBIF via the DiGIR protocol and Darwin Core schema. {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[62.0, -71.0], [159.0, -71.0], [159.0, -45.0], [62.0, -45.0], [62.0, -71.0]]]} 62.0 159.0 -71.0 -45.0 AMD AMD/AU AMD/SCAR-MARBIN ANARE ANTABIF CAML > CENSUS OF ANTARCTIC MARINE LIFE CEOS COML > CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > SEA ICE CONCENTRATION EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE EBA > Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR IPY > INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR OBIS > OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM OBIS/SCAR-MARBIN OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN SCAR-MARBIN > SCAR Marine Biodiversity Information Network SHIPS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS incidental sightings GET DATA documentDigital Description page of collection with links to search or list records HTML VIEW RELATED INFORMATION documentDigital Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset HTML Creative Commons by Attribution logo documentDigital PNG