Whale sightings during POLARSTERN cruise ANT-XXVIII/4

• Main Author: Burkhardt, Elke
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic Peninsula; ANT-XXVIII/4; Certainty of identification; Cetacean sightings; CT; DATE/TIME; Individuals; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; MAPS; Marine Mammal Perimeter Surveillance from RV Polarstern; Polarstern; PS79; PS79/4-track; Underway cruise track measurements; Visual observation; WALOG; Whale species; Antarctic; Austral; Scotia Sea; Elephant Island; Joinville; Western Shelf; Joinville Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Antarctic Minke whale; Balaenoptera bonaerensis; Balaenoptera physalus; baleen whales; Euphausia superba; Fin whale; Humpback Whale; Killer Whale; Megaptera novaeangliae; minke whale; Orca; Orcinus orca; toothed whale; Killer whale
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.819863; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.819863

From 13 March to 09 April 2012 Germany conducted a fisheries survey on board RV Polarstern in the Scotia Sea (Elephant Island - South Shetland Island - Joinville Island area) under the auspices of CCAMLR. During this expedition, ANT-XXVIII/4, an opportunistic marine mammal survey was carried out. Da...