
Aquarius - National Undersea Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
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Background of H.M.S. Challenger The historic voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, conducted between 1872-1876, is often considered to be the first expedition undertaken specifically to conduct oceanographic research. Its around-the-globe journey covered almost 69,000 nautical miles and gathered data on temperature, currents, water chemistry, marine organisms, and bottom deposits at 362 oceanographic stations.
The scientific results of the voyage were published in a 50-volume, 29,500-page report that took 23 years to compile. Many of the detailed drawings of flora and fauna in the report provide much of the basis of modern marine biology.
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