The Southern Ocean is the geographic scope for this dataset. It collates known shipwrecks and vessels lost at sea from 1578 to 2013, and recent shipping incidents from 1991 to 2016. Information includes year, vessel name, country, last known location, purpose, and cause. The dataset was compiled from numerous references and last updated by AU_AADC in December 2016.
Use Cases
- Analyze temporal trends in maritime accidents based on the year of incident data.
- Map historical shipwreck locations based on the last known location field.
- Study vessel purpose and mission types based on the purpose for the journey field.
- Associate incidents with flag states based on the country code data.
- Investigate causes of shipping incidents based on the cause of the incident field.
Strengths
- Long temporal coverage spanning 1578 to 2016.
- Compiled from numerous referenced sources, suggesting a multi-source compilation.
- Includes specific fields for location, country, purpose, and cause.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last updated 2016-12-31 23:59:59.999000; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- AU_AADC
- Collection Method
- Collation from numerous references listed in the description.
- Time Range
- 1578 to 2016
- Freshness
- Last updated 2016-12-31 23:59:59.999000.
- Geography
- Southern Ocean