1995/96 V3.1 details

General information

Season
1995/96
Voyage
V3.1

Ship

Polar Bird


©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2001
Catalogue id
4556C1
Photographer
Papps, Wayne

Leader

Voyage Leader

Not recorded

Voyage Objectives

MI Change-over, Resupply.

Comments

Voyage Reports

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

Schedule

FromDepartToArrive
Hobart  4-Jan-1996  Macquarie Island  7-Jan-1996 
Macquarie Island  12-Jan-1996  Hobart  14-Jan-1996 

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

See the 1995/96 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 180 Search

Voyage activities

ActivityDetails
Wildlife at Sea observations Observed 28 species from 217 observations. See Species and observation count - Link to data at Wildlife at Sea observations

Data from 5-Jan-1996 06:00 UT to 14-Jan-1996 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.

20 High latitude ionospheric sounding [observational]
59 ANARE mapping and geographic information program
546 Antarctic and Southern Ocean sea level network (Note: From 1997-98 this work is overseen by Operations Branch & is now incorporated in Project No. 1034).
751 Status and conservation of albatrosses on Macquarie Island
850 The impact of introduced ship rats (Rattus rattus) on burrow-nesting seabirds on Subantarctic Macquarie Island (superceded by project #2281)
894 Genetic diversity studies of selected Subantarctic terrestrial plant species
903 Structure and geochemistry of Macquarie Island oceanic crust
2244 Measurements of stratospheric nitrogen dioxide at Macquarie Island [observational]