Antarctic CRC and Australian Antarctic Division Climate Data Set - Australian iceberg observations
This dataset contains iceberg observations collected routinely on Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) by Antarctic expeditioners on a volunteer basis. The observations were made each austral summer from the 1978/1979 season until the 2000/2001 season. Data included voyage number, date, time, latitude, longitude, sea ice concentration, water temperature, total icebergs, number of icebergs in each width category, the width to height ratio of selected larger tabular icebergs. It was been compiled and presented on the web by the Glaciology program of the Antarctic CRC (now ACE CRC).
Data and resources
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Tabulated data detailing iceberg observations from 1978/1979 to 2000/2001HTML Open
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Citation reference for this metadata record and datasetHTML Open
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PNG Open
Additional information
| Temporal extent | 1978-12-13 – 2001-03-20 |
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| Date (publication) | 1999-10-07 |
| Status | completed |
| Update frequency | asNeeded |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | This metadata record is publicly available. |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-05 |
| Created | 2026-11-05 |
| API | package_show |