Brief description
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 IDIssued: 1999-10-06
Data time period: 1940-01-01 to 1999-10-07
text: northlimit=-60; southlimit=-69.28726; westlimit=42.53906; eastLimit=160; projection=WGS84
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AU-ANL:PEAU :
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
- URI : data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Whaling
- Local : Whaling
- DOI : 10.26179/5D6C6CFAEED5E
- global : 41ac8da9-ef3f-44ac-a6fb-a486a7eea2fe