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Reikiavik, July 27
IN continuation of our last account we hear that the expedition has been not at all favoured by the weather. Since it left Christiansund, June 27, it has met with no less than five storms (wind velocity, forty-five miles an hour); two in the “Lightning” Channel early in July, one at Thorshaven, one north of Färöe, and one at the Westman Islands (off the south coast of Iceland). It has been only in the short intervals between these storms that any deep-sea work has been done. The last days of June were fine, so the expedition sounded, dredged, and trawled off Christiansund on the bank called “Storeg-gen.” Here the fauna was quite Atlantic; on the outer edge of the bank the water deepened to 300, 400, and 500 fathoms, and the ice-cold water was met with, yielding an Arctic fauna. Two large specimens of Umbellularia (the same as earlier) were found, with a new star-fish and an animal which is quite new to the naturalists on board. Of smaller organisms there were also several new ones.
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The Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition . Nature 14, 337–338 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014337b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/014337b0