Daily meteorological observations on Deception island, the South Shetlands, Antarctica, during the austral summer of 1930-1931.

The data set presents keyed and translated daily meteorological observations conducted on the whaling station (land base) owned by Hektor Company at Deception Island, the South Shetland Islands archipelago, Antarctica. The original documents is a ship whale catch log (“Fangstdagbok”) that was used to record daily weather events together with the economical activity on the land base. The logbook covers the period of 01.11.1930 to 09.04.1931 and contains daily meteorological observations, such as air temperature and air pressure, wind strength and direction as well as description of specific atmospheric/precipitation events. The data set comprises two files: Deception_island_meteorological_logbook_1930_1931.docx (data set descriptor) and deception_isl_dagbok_1930_keyed_translated.xlsx (metadata and data table).