Description
Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Abstract: Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 86 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Happywhale. 2026. Happywhale - Blue whale in Southern Ocean. Version 1.6.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.82144/7c840ed0.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: dbb81459-91c9-4cc1-b2b0-17a098d0d803. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Marine Biology; PhotoID; Occurrence; Observation
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1760 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1760/fgdc UTF-8 XML |
| EML Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1760/eml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
- A328 LSRC building
Geographic Coverage
Data extent
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-76.464, -179.358], North East [-60.108, -60.108] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Balaenoptera musculus (Blue whale) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2015-12-17 / 2026-02-14 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Happywhale - Blue whale in Southern Ocean |
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| Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
Sampling Methods
NA
| Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
- NA
Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_1760 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_1760 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Bibliographic Citations
- Southerland, K., and T. Cheeseman. 2026. Happywhale encounter. https://happywhale.com/
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS. Sightings and images were submitted to Happywhale by contributors. A portion of the Happywhale data were transferred to OBIS-SEAMAP upon the agreement between Happywhale and OBIS-SEAMAP. There may be duplicate records among Happywhale datasets and other OBIS-SEAMAP datasets. The precision of date/time vary per record. Some records have date accuracy up to year only. This dataset includes sightings and photos from the following 44 contributors in alphabetic order: Annette Bombosch; Antoine Viot; Apostolopoulos Aristeidis; Aurora Expeditions Douglas Mawson; Aurora Expeditions Greg Mortimer; Cathrine Perkins; Chris Croxson; Conor Ryan; Dean Tatooles; Dmitrii Kiselev; Frank Welten; Genna Roland; Jamie Coleman; Jeffrey Garriock; Jeff Reynolds; Jill Niederberger; Joel Moore; Jonathan Reid; Joshua Peck; Kay Jones; Kimberly Nesbitt; Kristin Adelsberger; Laura Bogaard; Marilia Olio; Mark Doing; Mark Smith; Martin Renner; Matty Jordan; Michael Lewis; MS Fridtjof Nansen; MS Roald Amundsen; Nicola Silver; Nicole Corrigan; Ortelius - Oceanwide Expeditions; Rémi Bigonneau; Richard White; Rob Jansen; Ruben Fijn; Selim Suner; SH Vega - Swan Hellenic; steve; Ted Cheeseman; Tim Gunns; Tobias Brehm
| Purpose | N/A |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 10.82144/7c840ed0 |
| dbb81459-91c9-4cc1-b2b0-17a098d0d803 | |
| https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1760 | |
| 2fd01957-420e-4f45-8c4b-3bd6ac60f1c4 | |
| https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1760 |