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Whaling records and changes in Antarctic sea ice: consistency with historical records

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

William K. de la Mare
William K. de la Mare
Affiliation:
Australian Antarctic Division, Channel Highway, Kingston Tasmania 7050 Australia
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Abstract

A claim that there are substantial discrepancies between direct observations of the Antarctic sea-ice edge and the implicit sea-ice edge derived from whaling records is rebutted. The claimeddiscrepancies are shown to arise largely from comparing the two types of information from different dates. A date-corrected comparison shows generally good agreement between the southernmost limit of whaling and the most comprehensive of the early monthly ice charts of Antarctica. The remaining apparent discrepancies are accounted for either by very limited data or the complex nature of the ice edge in the region of the Weddell ice tongue. Correlation of the southernmost limits of whaling with direct observations of the ice edge provides the most powerful calibration of the relationship between them

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Polar Record , Volume 38 , Issue 207 , October 2002 , pp. 355 - 358
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002

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