REMODELLING AND REPAIR WORK OF THE JAPANESE ANTARCTIC RESEARCH SHIP SOYA

• Main Author: Yoichiro TOKUNAGA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1964
• Subjects: Geography (General); G1-922; Antarctic; Ongul; Ongul Island; Sikorsky; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15094/00007365; https://doaj.org/article/027c86f032d841eb928807d0c0d3ab2f

The M. S. SOYA, formerly a lighthouse supply vessel belonging to the Maritime Safety Agency of the Japanese Government, was remodelled as an Antarctic research ship in 1956. After the 1 st Antarctic voyage in which the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition established the Syowa Base in Ongul Island...