The geographic names of the study area that will be the focus of the Sounds of the Southern Ocean expedition. The research group will fly via Chilean C-130 from Punta Arenas to King George Island, where they will stay at the Korean Antarctic base until it is time to board the Russian icebreaker Yuzhmorgeologiya. The ship will then be used to deploy 7 hydrophones throughout the Bransfield Strait and Drake Passage. King George Island is the largest in the archipelago of submarine and subaerial volcanoes known as the South Shetland Islands off of the Antarctic Peninsula. Image courtesy of NOAA/Vents, Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)
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