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Large underwater mountain mapped near remote UK Overseas Territory

Posted by: Rachel Healey, Posted on: 25 March 2020 - Categories: Field Research, International, Science
computer generated image of a mountain

An underwater mountain double the height of the UK’s Ben Nevis has been added to a global map of the seafloor.

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Counting down the days until the Blue Belt Discovery Expeditions

Posted by: Rachel Reeves, Posted on: 5 February 2019 - Categories: Field Research, Fisheries, International, Science
Photos of Clockwise from top-left: a viper fish (Chauliodus sp.); a hatchet fish (Argyropelecus sp.); a juvenile angler fish (Lionophrynidae sp.) and an amphipod (Phronima sp.) caught in mid-water trawls around St Helena during the last Blue Belt survey of the island in 2018.

Find out what the team will be doing to study some of the remotest marine environments on Earth.

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