DWHD-76

La Perouse Bay, Easter Island

27.073° S
109.283° W

40.0 - 100.0 m

Feb. 2, 1958

dredge haul

R/V Horizon

Downwind Expedition party

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dry

dry

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Labels only state DWHD-76. Details from Garth, 1985, "On a Small Collection of Brachyuran Crustacea from Easter Island Obtained by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Downwind Expedition of 1958": https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/27804/27804.pdf. Easter Island cited in Garth, 1985 as 27 10'S, 129 26'W but this location is ~1,900 km from Easter Island. Georeferenced by C. Seid based on Mulrooney et al, 2009. Gear and ship inferred from Downwind Expedition report (https://escholarship.org/content/qt3x99x09h/qt3x99x09h.pdf?t=qpatqj): "Four biological dredge hauls, using a large chain-mesh bag dredge were made: two on Nasca Ridge, and two on the narrow shelf of Easter Island. The one shallow dredge haul, on Nasca Ridge was taken on Horizon, while the deep dredge haul (1101 fathoms) was taken on Baird. Both Easter Island dredge hauls were accomplished aboard Horizon. The fish fauna from these and several of the geological dredge hauls have been turned over to Dr. Carl L. Hubbs. Some of the crustaceans, especially the Galatheids, were given to Mr. William Boyd of Scripps Institution for identification, and the brachiopods have been sent to Dr. Heinz Lowenstam of California Institute of Technology for identification and geochemical studies. The mollusks from the dredge hauls will be identified at Scripps."