Use of sound-recording equipment by small expeditions

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Mullock, P. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1957
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Tristan; Gough; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400049251; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400049251

This issue contains an account of the Gough Island Scientific Survey which spent the southern summer of 1955–56 exploring this previously little known island in the South Atlantic. One of the tasks the expedition set itself was the making of sound recordings of the birds and seals to be found there—...