Ship wrecks and shipping accidents in the Southern Ocean: 1578 to 2016

A collation of known shipwrecks and vessels lost at sea from the year 1578 until 2013 containing information on year, vessel name, country, last known location, and purpose for the journey. And a collation of recent shipping incidents from 1991 until 2016 containing information on the year of the in...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
Subjects:
oceans
transportation
EARTH SCIENCE
HUMAN DIMENSIONS
INFRASTRUCTURE
INCIDENTS
SHIPS
AMD/AU
AMD
CEOS
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
OCEAN &gt
SOUTHERN OCEAN
CONTINENT &gt
ANTARCTICA
Argentina
New Zealand
Norway
Southern Ocean
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/ship-wrecks-shipping-1578-2016/1098298
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4180_Vessel_incidents_SO
https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS_4180_Vessel_incidents_SO
https://data.aad.gov.au/eds/4573/download
https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=AAS_4180
Description
Summary:A collation of known shipwrecks and vessels lost at sea from the year 1578 until 2013 containing information on year, vessel name, country, last known location, and purpose for the journey. And a collation of recent shipping incidents from 1991 until 2016 containing information on the year of the incident, vessel name, country where known, purpose of the journey and the cause of the incident. Location - listed as nearest land mass used where known. Country - Argentina = AR; Australia = AU; Bahamas = BS; Barbados = BB; Brazil = BR; China = CN; Falkland Islands = FK; France = FR; Germany = DE; Japan = JP; Korea = KR; Liberia = LR; Malta = MT; New Zealand = NZ; Norway = NO; Panama = PA; Peru = PE; Poland = PL; Russia = RU; Spain = ES; South Africa = ZA; Sweden = SE; UK = United Kingdom; US = United States of America Nationality of tourist companies are not all included as the company (principal and sub-chartered), and the ships used, are registered across different countries, some even changing within any given year. Flag state for that year is included where known. NB: vessels ran aground mainly due to severe weather conditions or inadequate hydrographic information Information was compiled for numerous references (Argentina and Chile, 2016; ASOC, 2012; Belgium, 2009; Brazil, 2012a; Brazil, 2012b; Headland, 2009; IAATO, 2000; IAATO, 2002; IAATO, 2003; IAATO, 2011a; IAATO, 2011b; Jones, 1973; Korea, 2011; New Zealand, 2007; New Zealand, 2012a; New Zealand, 2012b; New Zealand, 2015; New Zealand et al., 2011; Norway, 2007; Norway, 2008; People's Republic of China, 2013; Poland, 2016; Reich, 1980; Sweet et al., 2015; United Kingdom, 2008; United Kingdom, 2009).

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