The Work of the R.R.S. Discovery II and R.R.S. William Scoresby

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Deacon, G. E. R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1938
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Pacific; Scoresby; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400036573; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400036573

The Discovery II left St Katharine Dock on October 7, 1937. She will be away for twenty months continuing her research on the distribution of whales, hydrology and plankton. The first seven months (the southern summer) are to provide data for comparison with those obtained on the winter circumpolax...