. Scottish geographical magazine. uspices; the botany andgeology was investigated, and an extremely rich shallow-water faunacollected, in addition to numerous specimens of the seals and of thebirds of the locality, with their eggs. THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. 33 (3) In the South Atlantic a somewhat deeper channel has beendemonstrated between the Falkland Islands and the South Orkneys thanwas previous]) supposed to exist. Further to the east, the oceans contours have been materiallychanged by the discovery of a large southern extension of the Mid-Atlantic ridge to the south of G
. Scottish geographical magazine. uspices; the botany andgeology was investigated, and an extremely rich shallow-water faunacollected, in addition to numerous specimens of the seals and of thebirds of the locality, with their eggs. THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. 33 (3) In the South Atlantic a somewhat deeper channel has beendemonstrated between the Falkland Islands and the South Orkneys thanwas previous]) supposed to exist. Further to the east, the oceans contours have been materiallychanged by the discovery of a large southern extension of the Mid-Atlantic ridge to the south of Gough Island. Physical and biologicalwork has been carried out in a hitherto entirely uninvestigated ocean ;and on Gough Island a small but representative collection of the fauna,flora, and geology has been made for the first time. But the South Atlantic is large, and there still remains much to the Tristan dAcunha group and the South Georgia the oceanis, from a scientific point of view, absolutely unknown. To the south. s/>y
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