Southern Right Whale in Flinders Chase National Park

Eubalaena australis

Chance of an encounter
Very likely

Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Flinders Chase National Park, aggregated onto a 25 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.

Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.

When it has been recorded here

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Records exist for May, June, July and August, with the widest coverage in May, June, July and August. A quiet month can mean the animal was absent, or that nobody was looking.

The evidence here

Grid cells
5
Records
107
Cell size
25 km
Years covered
1984 to 2013

A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 5 squares of 25 km carry records for Southern Right Whale in and around Flinders Chase National Park, and the 107 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.

About the Southern Right Whale

Table Mountain and Garden Route National Parks are the two atlas places where the Southern Right Whale is recorded. Its records concentrate in Australia, Argentina, South Africa, Brazil and the Falkland Islands. With about 13,000 records across nine countries, the map shows where these observations gather.

It is the only species with an atlas page recorded in and around Flinders Chase National Park.

The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded