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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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The research vessel Horizon departed La Jolla, California, last weekend on an oceanographic expedition to survey uncharted North Pacific depths between the Aleutian Islands and San Francisco-Hawaii lanes, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and conducted by Scripps Institution in cooperation with the U.S. Navy.
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LA JOLLA, Calif., July 16. -(P)-- Another expedition into the vast depths of the Pacific got underway here last week-end with departure of the research vessel Horizon.
The ship, with the latest oceanographic equipment, will survey the virtually uncharted area of the North Pacific between the Aleutian Islands and the San Francisco-Hawaii steamer lanes.
It is being sent out by the University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography here, in cooperation with the U. S. Navy electronics laboratory, San Diego.
The office of Naval Research is sponsoring the expedition.
Scripps' scientists explained that the Horizon's new voyage will be an extension of expeditions which last year discovered and surveyed the submerged Mid-Pacific Mountain range, west of Hawaii, and the Mendocino escarpment-great submarine cliff that extends for hundreds of miles off the northern California coast.
The new expedition will examine the northern ridge of the escarpment, dredging bottom samples and making soundings. It will then turn north to the center of the Gulf of Alaska.
Other samples will be dredged from the tops of seamounts south of the Alaskan peninsula.
After a call at Kodiak, the only stopover, the Horizon will continue the research southwestward along the Aleutian trench to Unimak Pass then turn southward to an 1,800-mile voyage to a point about 500 miles northwest of Honolulu.
It will return to the California coast along a suspected escarpment facing the Mendocino escarpment.
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North Pacific Between The Aleutian Islands And The San Francisco Hawaii Steamer Lanes
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Last Week End, July 16
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The research vessel Horizon departs on an expedition to survey uncharted ocean depths, extending previous discoveries of submarine features, involving dredging, soundings, and visits to Kodiak and Unimak Pass before returning to California.