Brief description
Records of collisions between vessels and whales in Australian waters between 1872 and 2015 as described in the paper Peel, D., Smith, J. N., & Childerhouse, S. (2018). Vessel Strike of Whales in Australia: The Challenges of Analysis of Historical Incident Data. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 69.As many locations as possible have been geo-referenced based on the site description. Some are too vague to do so. Only clearly identified taxa are in this dataset. For the complete list, including unidentified cetaceans, see the citation for the complete dataset.
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Identifiers
- Local : ala.org.au/dr16911