Discovery Investigations

Discovery Investigations contributed greatly to knowledge of the whales, the krill they fed on and their habitat's oceanography, while charting the local topography, including Atherton Peak.

[1] Shore-based work on South Georgia took place in the marine laboratory, Discovery House, built in 1925 at King Edward Point and occupied until 1931.

This was a series of many small reports, published in 38 volumes by the Cambridge University Press, and latterly the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences.

First Survey RRS William Scoresby March 1950 With an Account of the Reproductive System and Sexual Succession of Limacina bulimoides National Institute of Oceanography Part I.

Behaviour and Histology A K Totton G O Mackie Plates I - III British Museum (Natural History) Ronald I Currie Dept.

The former Antarctic exploration ship RRS Discovery was employed for the Discovery Investigations cruises between 1923 and 1931.