Ship image courtesy Gillen D’Arcy Wood
The HMS Challenger expedition, conducted from 1872 to 1876, collected oceanographic data from around the world and is now commemorated through the Oceans 1876 project, which offers a website with the collected information and provides a valuable snapshot of the preindustrial Earth.
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