The Challenger Expedition: Exploring the Ocean's Depths
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The Challenger Expedition: Exploring the Ocean's Depths is the story of the groundbreaking scientific ocean study by HMS Challenger in 1872 that transformed our understanding of the deep sea. Published to mark the 150th anniversary of its launch.
Product Details
Part Number: HIS0026
Edition: 2022
Printed and corrected to: No
ISBN: 9781906367978
Publisher: Royal Museums Greenwich
Language: English
Format: Paperback
On 21 December 1872, HMS Challenger set sail from Portsmouth, England, to begin a global voyage of deep-sea exploration, unique for the scale of its ambition and scope. Made possible by technological and scientific developments, extensive international cooperation and supported by a team of researchers and naval officers, the expedition was part of a concerted nineteenth-century drive to map the ocean floors and search for life in the abyss.
By the time the ship returned to Britain in 1876, the scientific team on board had amassed what was then the largest collection of examples of life from the deep sea. But their work was not finished and over the next two decades a global network of researchers prepared the results for publication, culminating in a 50-volume series that is considered the intellectual foundation of modern oceanography.
