The extent of hydrocarbon contamination in the marine environment from a research station in the Antarctic

• Published in: Marine Pollution Bulletin
• Main Author: Cripps, G.C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 1992
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Antarctic; Factory Cove; Signy Station; South Orkney Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518387/; https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-326X(92)90684-X

Low level hydrocarbon contamination is measurable in the vicinity of Antarctic stations, N-alkane and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) concentrations in seawater and sediment at Signy Station, South Orkney Islands indicated contamination was confined to within a few hundred metres of the statio...