Enriched with information gathered by subsequent voyages, at its completion the Challenger Report formed a comprehensive study of Earth's largest and most complicated biosphere. Over 75 authors from Britain, Europe and the United States were involved in analysing the specimens and data amassed by Challenger and writing the reports. Challenger During the Years 1873–76as a 50-volume series from offices in Edinburgh. Water samples, marine plants and animals, sea-floor deposits and rocks brought up from the deep were carefully preserved on board the ship and sent to Britain for later study.īetween 18, with additional funding from the government, Thomson, and later John Murray, published the Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. They are some of the first photographs of icebergs ever taken ( ALB0175.26)Īlong its route, the expedition performed 374 deep-sea soundings, took 255 observations of water temperature, successfully deployed the dredge at 111 stations and completed 129 trawls. An iceberg in the Southern Ocean, one of a series of images taken by official photographer Frederick Hodgeson.

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