Biological observations from the Discovery Investigations 1925-1952

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Description

The Discovery Investigations were a series of expeditions to the Southern Oceans funded out of proceeds from the sale of whaling licenses that took place between 1925 and 1951. The investigations had three main components: a marine laboratory at King Edward Point on South Georgia; the fast-sailing 326-ton RRS William Scoresby; and studies undertaken by the RSS Discovery. In 1929, the Discovery was replaced by the 1000-ton steel-hulled RRS Discovery II when the older ship was found to be simply too slow and cumbersome to carry out all the work required.A variety of sampling methods were deployed, including otter trawls, beam trawls, dredges, fish traps, and a variety of fine-meshed nets tow in the horizontal, vertical, or oblique.

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Southwestern Pacific OBIS (2014). Biological observations from the Discovery Investigations 1925-1935. Southwestern Pacific OBIS, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand, 33337 records, Online http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=discovery_reports released on January 23, 2015.

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This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 96385e98-93b5-4e4a-8081-6e30b738816a.  Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Kevin Mackay
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  • Marine Data Manager
NIWA
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6241 Wellington
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Kevin Mackay
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Geographic Coverage

Mainly in the South Atlantic and around the Antarctic Peninsula. But also in the Southern Ocean, and the southern Indian and Pacific Oceans

Bounding Coordinates South West [-70.567, -180], North East [41.617, 180]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1873-01-01 / 1952-01-01

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Barnard, K.H. (1932). Amphipoda. Discovery Reports, V. University Press: Cambridge. 326, plate I pp
  2. Heengaard, P. (1951). Antarctic parasitic copepods and an ascothoracid cirriped from brittle-stars. Vidensk. Medd. Dan. Naturhist. Foren. 113: 171-190, II plates
  3. John, C.C. (1932). Cephalodiscus. Discovery Reports, III. University Press: Cambridge. 223-260, plates XXXIII-XXXVIII pp.
  4. Mortensen, T. (1936). Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea. Discovery Reports, 12. Cambridge University Press: London. 199-348, plate I-IX pp.
  5. Heron-Allen, E.; Earland, A. (1932). Foraminifera. Part I. The ice-free area of the Falkland Islands and adjacent seas. Discovery Reports, IV. University Press: Cambridge. 291-460, plates VI-XVII pp
  6. Massy, A.L. (1932). Mollusca: Gastropoda Thecosomata and Gymnosomata. Discovery Reports, III. University Press: Cambridge. 267-296, plate XXXIX pp
  7. Graham Cannon, H. (1932). Nebaliacea. Discovery Reports, III. University Press: Cambridge. 199-222, plate XXXII pp
  8. Gordon, I. (1932). Pycnogonida. Discovery Reports, VI. University Press: Cambridge. 1-137 pp
  9. Burton, M. (1932). Sponges. Discovery Reports, VI. Cambridge University Press: London. 237-392, Plates XLVIII-LVII pp

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers 96385e98-93b5-4e4a-8081-6e30b738816a
https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=discovery_reports