Historic Vessel Strikes with Whales in Australian Waters

Marine mammals abundance and distribution

Records of collisions between vessels and whales in Australian waters between 1872 and 2015 as described in the paper Peel, D., Smith, J. N., & Childerhouse, S. (2018). Vessel Strike of Whales in Australia: The Challenges of Analysis of Historical Incident Data. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 69.

This record has been created to facilitate access to the original data collection at https://doi.org/10.25919/5be5086a6fda1

Data and resources

DATA ACCESS - Australian vessel strike data [.csv]

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ASSOCIATED PUBLICATION - Historical Data on Australian Whale Vessel Strikes

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ASSOCIATED PUBLICATION - Vessel Strike of Whales in Australia: The Challenges of Analysis of Historical Incident Data

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View data in CSIRO Data Access Portal (DAP)

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NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project C5 webpage

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Additional information

Temporal extent	1872-12-15 – 2015-12-31
Date (creation)	2017-03-02
Status	completed
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-05
Created	2026-11-05
API	package_show