Table 1 Mooring metadata: Data sources: 1 = Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway, 2 = the Ocean Acoustics Group of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven, Germany).

From: High Arctic “hotspots” for sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) off western and northern Svalbard, Norway, revealed by multi-year Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM)

Location	Recording start	Recording end	Latitude	Longitude	Deployment depth (m)/bottom depth (m)	Sample rate (kHz)	Duty cycle (min/h) = duration of one recording	Total number of recordings	Data source
Eastern Svalbard 1	17/11/2019	24/07/2020	79.582917	28.073	60/252	32	12	3471	1
Eastern Svalbard 1	25/02/2021	10/11/2021	79.5839	28.065617	60/252	32	12	6201	1
Eastern Svalbard 2	03/10/2018	29/06/2019	79.678833	32.319833	64/357	32	12	6462	1
Eastern Svalbard 2	17/11/2019	23/09/2020	79.6756	32.314733	67/350	32	12	7463	1
Eastern Svalbard 2	01/10/2020	11/11/2021	79.6756	32.314733	67/360	32	12	9757	1
Atwain	18/09/2012	04/05/2013	81.543167	30.856667	55/850	32	17	5463	1
Atwain	22/09/2013	02/05/2014	81.544583	30.85345	59/850	32	17	5327	1
Atwain	19/09/2015	05/12/2016	81.40425	31.22555	57/200	32	12	10,622	1
Atwain	25/09/2017	08/12/2018	81.40978	31.241767	55/206	32	12	10,522	1
Eastern Fram Strait	23/07/2016	18/07/2017	79.0002	5.6687	808/2083	48	10	8725	2
Eastern Fram Strait	20/08/2018	01/08/2019	79.1665	6.3327	836/1414	48	10	8425	2
Western Fram Strait	02/09/2012	11/04/2013	78.799533	− 4.9932	75/1014	32	17	5264	1
Western Fram Strait	08/09/2013	27/04/2014	78.833967	− 4.993183	76/1015	32	17	5532	1
Western Fram Strait	07/09/2015	30/08/2016	78.836067	− 5.001433	74/1010	32	12	8583	1
Western Fram Strait	09/09/2016	27/08/2017	78.836067	− 5.001433	84/1018	32	12	8433	1
Western Fram Strait	10/09/2017	28/08/2018	78.83805	− 4.986517	71/1022	32	12	8437	1
Western Fram Strait	07/09/2018	03/09/2019	78.838733	− 5.002433	81/1022	32	12	8668	1
Isfjorden	05/10/2017	24/08/2018	78.18185	13.389167	50/242	32	12	7760	1
Isfjorden	29/08/2018	18/05/2019	78.18185	13.389167	50/242	32	12	6303	1
Isfjorden	08/09/2019	08/06/2020	78.125283	14.419283	42/160	32	12	6586	1
Kongsfjorden	09/10/2013	24/03/2014	78.96245	11.805033	51/230	32	17	3968	1
Kongsfjorden	25/09/2014	15/08/2015	78.962667	11.79725	33/223	32	15	7759	1
Kongsfjorden	21/09/2015	02/04/2016	78.9589	11.823833	57/223	32	12	4680	1
Kongsfjorden	31/08/2016	08/08/2017	78.959167	11.823717	50/223	32	6	8251	1
Kongsfjorden	18/08/2017	17/08/2018	78.958933	11.823933	58/224	32	15	8745	1
Rijpfjorden	20/09/2015	26/08/2016	80.294525	22.30254	52/227	32	12	8208	1
Rijpfjorden	14/08/2018	17/02/2019	80.294433	22.299183	63/240	32	15	4494	1

Duty cycle refers to the duration of each single recording in minutes, recorded from the start of every hour.

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Table 1 Mooring metadata: Data sources: 1 = Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway, 2 = the Ocean Acoustics Group of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven, Germany).

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