Townsend Logbook Data
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An interactive data viewer for this database is available on the Whaling History website.
https://whalinghistory.org/av/logs/townsend/

The database description is available on the Whaling History website.
https://whalinghistory.org/av/logs/townsend/about/


Creative Commons License

American Offshore Whaling Logbook Data by New Bedford Whaling Museum and Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://whalinghistory.org/contact/.


Preferred citation

American Offshore Whaling Logbook Data, https://whalinghistory.org, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. and New Bedford Whaling Museum.


Formats

This download package includes two versions of the database, one in Excel xlsx format and one as tab-delimited text. The tab-delimited text file has column names in the first row. It is UTF-8 encoded with Unix line endings between records and no line breaks embedded within any data. The content of the two versions is identical.


Additions & corrections

Users who have facts to add or who discover errors in the database are encouraged to submit them. We plan to update the online database annually. https://whalinghistory.org/participate/corrections/


Columns

0	sequence
1	VoyageID
2	Lat
3	LatType
4	Lon
5	LonType
6	Day
7	Month
8	Year
9	SpeciesName
10	Number_Whales
11	Vessel1
12	Vessel2
13	Ocean
14	Basin
15	DegLat
16	MinLat
17	NS
18	DegLong
19	MinLong
20	EW
21	PosType
22	Wording
23	Remarks

Column Definitions & Code Tables are available on the Whaling History website.
https://whalinghistory.org/av/logs/townsend/columns/