Major Deep-Sea Expediitons 1850 - 1940

Research voyages and research vessels
year country ship ocean region
1873 - 1876 Britain Challenger around the world
1874 - 1876 Germany Gazelle around the world
1877 - 1886 USA Blake Gulf Stream
1887 - 1888 USA Albatross North Atlantic
1889 Germany National North Atlantic
1893 - 1896 Norway Fram Arctic Ocean
1898 - 1899 Germany Valdivia Atlantic, Indian Ocean
1899 - 1900 Holland Siboga Indonesian Seas
1901 - 1903 Germany Gauss Atlantic, Indian, Southern Ocean
1906 - 1907 Germany Planet Atlantic, Indian, western Pacific
1904 - 1913 Norway Michael Sars North Atlantic
1911 - 1912 Germany Deutschland Atlantic, Southern Ocean
1925 - 1927 Germany Meteor South Atlantic Ocean
1928 - 1929 USA Carnegie Pacific
1929 - 1930 Holland Willebrord Snellius Indonesian Seas
1921 - 1935 Denmark Dana I, Dana II around the world
from 1930 Britain Discovery Southern Ocean
from 1931 USA Atlantis North Atlantic
from 1937 Japan Ryofu Maru Pacific
1938 - 1939 USSR Sedov Arctic Ocean

Reference

Wüst, G. (1964) The major deep-sea expeditions and research vessels 1873 - 1960 - A contribution to the history of oceanography. Progress in Oceanography 2, 1 - 52.

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