SPACK : spatio-temporal database dedicated to whaling, sealing and fishing in Saint-Paul, Amsterdam, Crozet and Kerguelen Islands between 1780's and 1930's ...

• Main Authors: Bocher Elsa, Bocher Erwan
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Whaling; Sealing; Fishing; Southern Islands; Database; History; Kerguelen Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8380676; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.8380676

SPACK is a spatio-temporal database dedicated to whaling, sealing and fishing history. It aims to gather miscellaneous and scattered sources about whaling, sealing and fishing voyages that visited Saint-Paul, Amsterdam, Crozet and Kerguelen Islands between 1780’s and 1930’s. SPACK has been defined and populated during a PhD thesis in history. The main purpose is to assess the attendance of whaling, sealing and fishing ships around the French Southern Islands from the late 18th century. The goal is also to shed light on the issues arising from the first public policies for managing natural resources once French sovereignty was affirmed in the late 19th. The data collected in SPACK are stored in the object-relational database, PostgreSQL, plus its spatial extension PostGIS. This repository can be used to create a new instance of the SPACK database. It contains 7 SQL files that represent the main tables of the SPACK model. - attested_presence_areas: this table shows the dates on which the vessel is present in ...