Oceanography Collection (page 5)

Indian Ocean, sea floor topography C016 / 3715
Indian Ocean, sea floor topography. Computer graphic of the Indian Ocean on an Earth globe, generated using satellite and mapping data

Indian Ocean, cloud-free C016 / 3713
Indian Ocean, cloud-free. Computer graphic of the Indian Ocean on an Earth globe, generated using satellite and mapping data

Charles Dwight Sigsbee, US naval officer
Charles Dwight Sigsbee (1845-1923), US naval officer and oceanographer. Sigsbee is best known as the captain of the USS Maine, whose explosion in Havana, Cuba

Bering Sea, satellite image C013 / 5164
Bering Sea, satellite image. North is towards upper left. Clouds, snow and ice are white. The Bering Sea, over a thousand kilometres across, is bounded by Alaska (upper centre)

Alexander Popov with Stepan Makarov C013 / 5349
Alexander Popov with Stepan Makarov. Russian radio pioneer and physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859-1906, right), showing the worlds first radio to the Russian navy commander

Stepan Makarov, Russian navy commander C013 / 5346
Stepan Makarov (1849-1904). Painting of the Russian navy commander and vice-admiral Stepan Osipovich Makarov in his military uniform

Chart of oceanic section, Tenerife to Sombrero
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Chart of oceanic section, Bermuda to Azores
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Chart of oceanic section, to St. Pauls Rocks

Chart of oceanic section, Tristan D Acunha to Cape of Good H
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Chart of oceanic section, Halifax, Bermuda
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Knobly Sea Stars (Protoreaster nodosus) and small fish, Sipadan Island, Malaysia

Knobly Sea Star (Protoreaster nodosus) and small fish, Sipadan Island, Malaysia

Roving coral grouper, Plectropomus pessuliferus (marisrubri), with Scalefin anthias, Anthias squamipinnis, Red Sea, Egypt

Lionfish (Pterois voliants) by corals and Red Sea Racoon Butterflyfish (Chaetodon fasciatus) in the background, Red Sea, Egypt

Old wheel home to corals and fish with scuba divers in the background, Numidia shipwreck, Brother Islands, Red Sea, Egypt

Scalefin Anthias, Anthias squamipinnis, swimming over coral of genus Acropora, Red Sea, Egypt

Bluespotted ribbontail ray, Taeniura lymma, at Abu Soma Arbaa (Safaga area), Red Sea, Egypt

Red Sea Racoon butterflyfish, Chaetodon fasciatus, Abu Soma Arbaa (Safaga area), Red Sea, Egypt

Arabian Picasso triggerfish, Rhinecanthus assasi, Panorama Reef (Abu Alama), Red Sea, Egypt

Above and underwater shot of dive boats and corals at Panorama Reef (Abu Alama), Red Sea, Egypt

Humphead wrasse, Cheilinus undulatus and anthiases at Elphinstone Reef, Red Sea, Egypt

Coral hind, Cephalopholis miniata, at Elphinstone Reef, Red Sea, Egypt

Clearfin lionfish, Pterois radiata, at Siyull Island (Fury Shoal area), Red Sea, Egypt

School of Scalefin anthias, Anthias squamipinnis, at Habili Ali (St. Johns Reef area), Red Sea, Egypt

Lionfish (Turkeyfish), Pterois volitans, at Daedalus Reef (Abu el-Kizan), Red Sea, Egypt

School of Masked Butterflyfish, Chaetodon semilarvatus, Red Sea, Egypt

SHELLS, 1776. Page from Thomas Jeffersons copy of Elements of Conchology, by Emanuel Mendes da Costa, 1776. Shells are identified as follows

GULF STREAM: MAP, 1786. Chart of the Gulf Stream published by Benjamin Franklin, 1786

OCEANOGRAPHY: HIRONDELLE. The Hirondelle, a yacht used for oceanographic research by Prince Albert I of Monaco. Wood engraving, German, c1900

OCEANOGRAPHY: TRAP. Trap for catching specimens of deep sea life, designed by Prince Albert I of Monaco (1848-1922). Wood engraving, German, c1900

HMS CHALLENGER, 1873. The British survey ship HMS Challenger made fast to St. Pauls Rocks in the mid-Atlantic. Wood engraving, English, 1873

HMS CHALLENGER, 1872-76. The British survey ship HMS Challenger off Kerguelen Island in the South Indian Ocean, during the oceanographic voyage of 1872-76. Contemporary wood engraving

HMS CHALLENGER, 1872-76. Officers of the British survey ship HMS Challenger bartering with natives of the Admiralty Islands during the voyage of 1872-76. Wood engraving, late 19th century

HMS CHALLENGER SCIENTISTS. Scientists at work during the cruise (1872-76) of the British survey ship HMS Challenger. Wood engraving, 1895

MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY (1806-1873). American naval officer and oceanographer. Gulf Stream and Drift. Plate from the first edition of his The Physical Geography of the Sea, 1855

HMS CHALLENGER, 1872. The British survey ship HMS Challenger in Portsmouth Harbour in Hampshire, England, shortly before setting out on the oceanographic voyage that began 21 December 1872

HMS CHALLENGER, 1874. The British survey ship HMS Challenger. Wood engraving, 1874

HMS CHALLENGER. The British survey ship HMS Challenger off Kerguelen Island in the south Indian Ocean, about 3
HMS CHALLENGER. The British survey ship HMS " Challenger" off Kerguelen Island in the south Indian Ocean, about 3, 000 miles southeast from the Cape of Good Hope

ANTARCTICA: HMS CHALLENGER. The British survey ship HMS Challenger among the icebergs of the Antarctic in February 1874
ANTARCTICA:HMS CHALLENGER. The British survey ship HMS Challenger among the icebergs of the Antarctic in February 1874: contemporary engraving

HMS CHALLENGER, 1872-76. The Naturalists Workroom during the cruise (1872-76) of the British survey chip HMS Challenger. Contemporary wood engraving

Exploring Europas ocean, artwork
Exploring Europas ocean. Artwork of two probes (centre) using lights to explore below the ice covering the ocean on Europa, a moon of Jupiter

MIR deep-sea submersible being moved by crane over the sea. Once in the sea, the MIR submersible will be controlled by an onboard crew

Automonous underwater vehicle (Autosub)
Autosub, an automonous underwater vehicle owned by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), being launched in Antarctic waters

Autonomous underwater vehicle (Autosub)
Autosub, an autonomous underwater vehicle owned by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), being launched in Antarctic waters

Aleksei Treshnikov, Arctic explorer
Aleksei Treshnikov (right, 1914-1991), Soviet Arctic explorer, with a companion in the Arctic. In his youth, Treshnikov participated in a Soviet expedition to the North Pole (1948)

Leonid Brekhovskikh, Soviet oceanographer
Leonid Brekhovskikh (1917-2005), Soviet oceanographer, giving a lecture. Brekhovskikhs major work was on the study of acoustic waves underwater

Soviet North Pole-1 station crew, 1939
Soviet North Pole-1 station crew members. Seated at left is Ivan Papanin (1894-1986), expedition leader and Arctic explorer. Seated at centre is Ernst Krenkel (1903-1971), radio operator

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