FS Polarstern ANT XVI/2
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FS Polarstern (06AQ) |
| Cruise identifier | ANT XVI/2 |
| Cruise period | 1999-01-09 — 1999-03-16 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Objectives | 1. To recover one Bottom Pressure Recorder from the base of the Antarctic continental shelf slope.
2. To recover three Bottom Pressure Recorders near the Filchnher-Ronne Ice Shelf on the Antarctic continental shelf |
| Chief scientist | Geoff Hargreaves (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory) |
| Project | WOCE |
| Cruise report |  (0.08 MB) |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) | 73° 41' 31" S 34° 36' 35" W — BPR recovered |
| Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) | 76° 35' 5" S 32° 0' 23" W — |
