. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. 20 DISCOVERY REPORTS having come from South Africa via Tristan da Cunha. At Sts. 9, 10, 11 and 12 (see Fig. u)N7o V nets were used: at St. 9 down to 250 m., and at Sts. 10, 11 and 12 down to 500 m. The N 100 H net was used at the surface only at Sts. 8 and 9. Nearer to South Georgia a continuous plankton record was taken for a distance of 109 miles. On account of the unfortunate but unavoidable delays in the start of the expedition, we arrived so late in the whaling season that we could not hope
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. 20 DISCOVERY REPORTS having come from South Africa via Tristan da Cunha. At Sts. 9, 10, 11 and 12 (see Fig. u)N7o V nets were used: at St. 9 down to 250 m., and at Sts. 10, 11 and 12 down to 500 m. The N 100 H net was used at the surface only at Sts. 8 and 9. Nearer to South Georgia a continuous plankton record was taken for a distance of 109 miles. On account of the unfortunate but unavoidable delays in the start of the expedition, we arrived so late in the whaling season that we could not hope in this first instance to gain more than a provisional knowledge of the plankton of the whaling grounds, and to collect data which would be a guide in planning the more comprehensive survey of the following season. This work was made difficult and was much curtailed by the many. Fig. 11. Chart showing position of plankton stations taken when approaching South Georgia from Tristan da Cunha in February 1926. successive gales and the fact that the 'Discovery' was not a full-powered ship. Early in March two lines of stations using N 70 V nets were made in a north-easterly direction from the coast (see Fig. 12): Sts. 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 starting at a point 5 miles from the coast and with intervals of 10 miles between stations, and Sts. 18, 19, 20 and 21 also starting at 5 miles from the coast, but with intervals of only 5 miles between stations. In the middle of March a full station (St. 23) was taken at 5 miles from the coast, followed by another line of stations, 24, 25 and 26, at which the state of the sea made vertical work impossible, N 100 H nets only being used. St. 31 was a full station 13 miles off the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (Great B
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