Science Centres: Vessels

Australia and New Zealand have launched the first Antarctic whale research expedition as part of the Southern Ocean Research Partnership in Wellington today. The expedition will undertake six weeks of research aboard the NIWA vessel RV Tangaroa in Antarctic waters and will use state of the art non-lethal techniques such as satellite tracking and acoustics surveys to study whales in the Southern Ocean.

• Read more at www.marinemammals.gov.au
• Follow Tangaroa's daily location on this map.
  
• For media enquiries about this voyage, please contact: Patti Lucas, AAD Public Affairs Manager, +61 439 639 227.