National Whale and Dolphin Sightings and Strandings Database
Australian Antarctic Data Centre

iOBIS and Australian Antarctic Data Centre

The National Whale and Dolphin Sightings and Strandings Database records reported sightings of whales and dolphins in Australian waters and maintains details of stranding events around the Australian coastline. This resource currently only show the sighting records.

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Original data obtained from http://data.aad.gov.au/digir/DiGIR.php and registered into iOBIS on 2008-09-25. 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: 2065) harvested into OBIS-SEAMAP on 2011-10-11

See Metadata record http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=AMD/AU/DB_Cetaceans_NSSD Contact Dave Watts for details on citation details.

Data on iOBIS. 2008. http://iobis.org/mapper/?resource_id=567, obtained on 2011-10-11

Original data source. http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/whales/, obtained on 2008-11-05

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.