This data corresponds to the Bilbao waves data set, firstly analysed by Castillo and Hadi (1997) and in del Castillo and Serra (2015) from the MLE point of view.
bilbaoA numeric vector.
Castillo, E. and Hadi, A. S. (1997). Fitting the Generalized Pareto Distribution to Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 92, 1609-1620. del Castillo, J. and Serra, I. (2015). Likelihood inference for Generalized Pareto Distribution. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 83, 116-128.