Happywhale - Bowhead in North Atlantic Ocean

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Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales. Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Supplemental information: Sightings and images were submitted to Happywhale by contributors. A portion of the Happywhale data were transferred to OBIS-SEAMAP upon the agreement between Happywhale and OBIS-SEAMAP. There may be duplicate records among Happywhale datasets and other OBIS-SEAMAP datasets. The precision of date/time vary per record. Some records have date accuracy up to year only. This dataset includes sightings and photos from the following 7 contributors in alphabetic order: adam maire; Annette Bombosch; Hans Meltofte; Lauren Farmer; Petra Glardon; Ted Cheeseman; Tobias Brehm

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Temporal extent	2005-04-18 – 2023-09-01
Date (creation)	2023-03-17
Date (publication)	2023-03-17
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show