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OUR arrival in Mauritius on August 5 completed the first half of our cruise in H.M.S. Scalark, together with all our work directly connected with the Chagos Archipelago. This work may be divided under two heads, oceanography and biology. The former has been carried out mainly by Commander Boyle Somerville and his officers in view of the scientific objects of the expedition, but at the same time it is all of practical value for navigation in these waters. In many respects it has been of a singularly arduous nature; surveys by camping parties and deep soundings from the ship have been carried on simultaneously, together with numerous observations on the tides, currents, sea temperatures, &c. To a considerable degree it and all the work has been hampered by the heavy weather, which, contrary to all expectation, we have experienced, winds from south to east with heavy, confused seas, partially induced by the comparatively shallow waters of the Chagcs Archipelago, and partially due to the current, which set in an easterly direction (against the wind) during the whole time we were in the group.
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GARDINER, J. The Percy Sladen Expedition in H.M.S. Sealark. The Chagos Archipelago . Nature 72, 571–572 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072571a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/072571a0