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H.M.S. Challenger's Investigations in the Pacific Ocean*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1952

G. S. Ritchie
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H.M.S. Challenger is one of Her Majesty's surveying vessels. She is a ship of 1140 tons and carries a complement of 96 officers and men. Built in 1931, she is named after her illustrious predecessor in which the wellknown world oceanographic cruise was made in the years 1872–6. This expedition brought back a great wealth of chemical and physical data, and a huge collection of plants and animals from the oceans. These were checked and analysed and eventually, under the guidance of Sir John Murray, who had been a scientist on board, the results were published in fifty folio volumes known as the Challenger Reports. These reports still form, the starting point for the study of the oceans and marine life.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , July 1952 , pp. 251 - 261
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1952

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