1991/92 V2 details

General information

Season
1991/92
Voyage
V2

Ship

Aurora Australis


©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1997
Catalogue id
2439B3
Caption
Pumping fuel to Mirny
Photographer
McCormack, David (Dave)

Leader

Voyage Leader

Rod Ledingham

Deputy Voyage Leader

Gordon Bain

Voyage Objectives

Mawson/Davis Ice Edge

Voyage Reports

No reports known - if you know of any, please contact the Data Centre and we can add them.

Schedule

FromDepartToArrive
Hobart  28-Oct-1991  Mawson  12-Nov-1991 
Mawson  13-Nov-1991  Davis  15-Nov-1991 
Davis  18-Nov-1991  Hobart  29-Nov-1991 

See also List of sitreps - not guaranteed to work as voyage naming conventions are not consistent.

See the 1991/92 Voyage Schedule for other voyages for this season.

Voyage track

Spatial bounds of voyage

No track has been constructed.

Voyage Data and Activities

Biological Collections

List of collections of species data collected on this voyage. Some collections are voyage specific or might be from a wider set of observations or samples.

Collection NameObservation countLink to data search form
Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean 526 Search

Voyage activities

ActivityDetails
Wildlife at Sea observations Observed 27 species from 555 observations. See Species and observation count - Link to data at Wildlife at Sea observations

Data from 29-Oct-1991 06:30 UT to 20-Nov-1991 00:00 UT

For data quality, methods used etc., see DB_WOV *** at GCMD

Weather

There is no weather data for this voyage.

Science Projects

Note - this page lists projects where there has been some requirements logged. This may include requests that are not directly associated with any science performed on the ship.

Australian Antarctic Science Projects for voyage. Click on the project number to see Public details such as project metadata and Australian Antarctic Program publications.

7 Distribution, size and dissolution of Antarctic icebergs [observational]
161 Lipids and Fatty Acids of Antarctic Sea-ice Algal Communities: New Sources of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
189 The East Antarctic sea ice zone: characteristics and ocean- ice-atmosphere interaction
191 Estimation of the Abundance and Spatial Distribution of 'Phaeocystis pouchetii' in Southern Ocean and Near-shore Antarctic Waters Using Signature Lipids and Pigments
503 Monitoring Organochlorine Pollutants in the Antarctic Ecosystem