SC/59/IA21 Preliminary results of aerial surveys around Elephant Island and the

• Main Author: South Shetland Islands
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Elephant Island; Joinville; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctic Minke whale; Balaenoptera bonaerensis; Balaenoptera borealis; Balaenoptera physalus; baleen whale; Fin whale; Humpback Whale; minke whale; Sei Whale; toothed whale
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.424.7865; http://www.iwcoffice.co.uk/_documents/sci_com/SC59docs/sc-59-ia21.pdf

programme from board RV ‘Polarstern ’ (Polarstern ANT 23-8) in the Elephant Island, the South Shetland Islands and Joinville – D’Urville Islands region. This allowed for the opportunity to conduct a helicopter based cetacean survey in the same area parallel to the fish work. A total of 2570nm were c...