Orca observations from the shores of Macquarie Island
Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Dataset credit

iOBIS and Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Abstract

This dataset contains sporadic shore based observations of killer whales (Orcinus orca) from Macquarie Island from 1989 to 1998 (inclusive).

Purpose

N/A

Supplemental information

Original data obtained from http://data.aad.gov.au/digir/DiGIR.php and registered into iOBIS on 2006-09-15. This dataset on OBIS-SEAMAP is a subset of marine mammal, seabird and/or sea turtle records from the dataset on iOBIS (Total number of records: 248) harvested into OBIS-SEAMAP on 2011-10-11

References

See Metadata record for details http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=AMD/AU/Orcas_observations_MI

Data on iOBIS. 2006. http://iobis.org/mapper/?resource_id=149, obtained on 2011-10-11

Original data source. http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/, obtained on 2006-09-15

Contacts

RoleNameOrganization 
Primary contact Dave Watts

Attributes

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downlodable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission unless otherwise noteded below.

The attributes of this dataset are compatible with the OBIS Schema, then reformatted to the OBIS-SEAMAP schema. If you would like to get the data in the OBIS Schema, please visit iOBIS Portal.

SEAMAP ID103150149
Seabirds0
Marine mammals248
Sea turtles0
Total248
Date, Begin1989-12-28
Date, End1998-01-23
Latitudes-54.78 - -54.48
Longitudes158.79 - 158.98
PlatformVarious
Data typeAnimal sighting
EffortN/A
SourceiOBIS
Updated2011-10-12