II.—The Antarctic Fishes of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition
Our knowledge of the Antarctic fish-fauna has greatly increased during the last ten years. The Belgian expedition to Graham Land (1897–1899) was followed by that of the Southern Cross to Victoria Land (1898–1900), fitted out by Sir George Newnes. Next were the British expedition of the Discovery to...
| Published in: | Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1913
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800003951 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0080456800003951 |
| Summary: | Our knowledge of the Antarctic fish-fauna has greatly increased during the last ten years. The Belgian expedition to Graham Land (1897–1899) was followed by that of the Southern Cross to Victoria Land (1898–1900), fitted out by Sir George Newnes. Next were the British expedition of the Discovery to Victoria Land and Edward Land (1901–1904), the German voyage of the Gauss to Kerguelen and Willhelm Land (1901–1903), and Nordenskjöld's Swedish expedition to South Georgia, the South Shetlands, and Graham Land. Then came the voyage of the Scotia to the South Orkneys and Coats Land (1902–1904), and Charcot's expeditions to the Palmer Archipelago and Graham Land in the Français . (1904–1905) and the Pourquoi Pas? (1908–1910), and finally Shackleton's expedition (1908–1909). |
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