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BANZARE ship logs and station lists

Created 17/11/2025

Updated 17/11/2025

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The British Australian (and) New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) was a research expedition into Antarctica between 1929 and 1931, involving two voyages over consecutive Austral summers. This document describes the ship's log and station list taken from Biological Organisation and Station List by T. Harvey Johnston, BANZARE Reports, Series B, Vol I, Part 1, pages 1-48 Data are stored in an Access database. The 5 tables are banzare_noon_log_1929_1930 and banzare_noon_log_1930_1931 noon positions from page 46-47 - assumed log_date is local noon, latitude and longitude in decimals. banzare_stations_1929_1930 and banzare_stations_1930_1931 odate is station date (no time is given) depth is echo depth (metres) latg and long is refined positions using Google Earth and Kerguelen map on page 14 full_speed_nets_1930_1931 log of full sped nets - see pages 40-44; time is possibly UTC distance is travel of ship when net is deployed depth is possible depth of net in fathoms tow_speed is ship speed in knots

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Title BANZARE ship logs and station lists
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/76815be6-2e0c-4344-bb21-a4a7e39cb24e
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 21/10/1929 - 24/03/1931
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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    [
      [
        18.0,
        -68.0
      ],
      [
        178.0,
        -68.0
      ],
      [
        178.0,
        -33.0
      ],
      [
        18.0,
        -33.0
      ],
      [
        18.0,
        -68.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "BANZARE ship logs and station lists". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/banzare-ship-logs-and-station-lists1