Southernmost Whale Catch Positions
Abrupt Mid-Twentieth Century Decline in Antarctic Sea-Ice Extent from Whaling Records. Format is a WinZip'ed Microsoft Access 2000 database. The northernmost edge of the sea ice was derived from the southernmost positions of whale catches.
A supplemental word document is also included with the dataset.
This dataset was originally compiled by Bill de la Mare.
The fields in this dataset are: record ID latitude mean latitude longitude longitude Interval date season decade id catch Record species ID
Data and resources
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Download page for Australian Antarctic Data CentreHTML Open
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Citation reference for this metadata record and datasetHTML Open
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PNG Open
Additional information
| Temporal extent | 1940-01-01 – 1999-10-07 |
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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 |