SYLVANA

Name: SYLVANA
Start: 1913-02-01
End: 1913-06-30
Location: Atlantic Ocean

Type	Oceanographic cruise
Ship	Sylvana
Dates	01/02/1913 - 30/06/1913
Chief scientist(s)	DE POLIGNAC Jean
	INDETERMINE - UNKNOWN Inconnue INDETERMINEE
Objective	In 1913, Count Jean de Polignac organized a cruise aboard the SYLVANA, for the naturalist Louis Gain. During five months, soundings, dredgings and trawlings followed one another, from Lorient to Senegal and Guinea and back to Brittany via the archipelagos of the Eastern Atlantic and Mauritania.