This year marks 150 years since the voyage of HMS Challenger left on its mission of scientific discovery. Museum researchers explain how the groundbreaking expedition is still important for scientists ...

Prior to the expedition, life beneath the waves was ... sturdy ship that had spent the first decade of its life on active duty: HMS Challenger. Preparations then began in earnest.

Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the voyage of HMS Challenger which set ... of Pelham Aldrich R.N. who served on the Challenger Surveying Expedition from 1872-5.

The Challenger expedition's data on ocean temperatures and currents ... The Silent Landscape: The Scientific Voyage of HMS Challenger. Work done aboard Challenger revolutionized researchers’ ideas ...

A second part of the project is a book that Wood is writing about the expedition, tentatively titled “Blue Wild: The Lost Marine World of HMS Challenger.” Each chapter will focus on a ...

HMS Challenger set sail from Portsmouth on a four-year exploration in 1872, with the Challenger Expedition Offices later established at 32 Queen Street in Edinburgh, where the discoveries ...

ON 21 DECEMBER 1872, the converted warship HMS Challenger embarked from Portsmouth ... Now, 150 years later, the Challenger expedition remains a milestone in oceanography. Scientists still ...

THE description of the Polyzoa collected during the expedition of the Challenger was undertaken by Mr. Busk, and the first part of his Report, comprising the Cheilostomatous forms, or those in ...