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Abstract:
The data set contains information on weather, sea state, sea ice and icebergs recovered from the logbooks, catch books, notebooks and meteorological journals from a number of vessels during their voyages to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. This work builds on the earlier phase of the project “Historical sea ice data from the Southern Ocean” aimed at recovering climate and sea ice data from Norwegian whaling vessels (Divine et al., 2021). The extended database comprises a collection of 27 documents of various types covering the period of 1932-1940 was keyed and translated. The documents are associated with vessels that was operated by Norwegian whaling companies or British companies with Norwegian crews. Details on data sources, methods used and basic analysis conducted on the data are found in the attached project report file. Note that this is an updated version (V2) of the dataset from November 2023. For more details on the data structure and individual files please see the attached document “Divine_et_al_AntarcticLogs_v2_updateNov2023.pdf”. Data are stored as zip archive in “Divine_et_al_Antarctic_logbooks_documents_CSV_IMMA1_compatible_format_v2_Nov2023.zip” (single file per document) and “Divine_et_al_data_publication_Antarctic_logbooks_v2_Nov2023_final.xlsx” (all data in one xlsx file)