Argentina–Chile National Geographic Pristine Seas Expedition To The Antarctic Peninsula - Deep Sea Cam Data

In January 2019, the governments of Chile and Argentina, in collaboration with National Geographic Pristine Seas, organized an expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula, with the aim to provide political, scientific, and communication support, at a global scale, to the Marine Protected Area proposal for the Antarctic Peninsula-South Scotia Arc (Domain 1 MPA or D1MPA) that was put forward jointly by the two countries in October 2018. To this end, they set out to explore the ecosystems of the continental shelf along the WAP and associated islands using National Geographic’s deep-sea cameras to capture high quality imagery of areas of the Antarctic sea floor and the associated fauna, which have been comparatively less well explored.
This bi-national expedition was conducted on the Chilean Navy vessel, the OPV-83 Marinero Fuentealba, with scientists from both countries national Antarctic Institutes.
In order to study the continental shelf faunal biodiversity of Antarctica , baited cameras were deployed at 20 locations along ~ 500 km of the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) at depths from 90 to 797 m.

2019年1月，智利与阿根廷政府联合国家地理原始海洋（National Geographic Pristine Seas）组织了一次南极半岛考察，旨在为两国于2018年10月联合提出的南极半岛-南斯科舍弧海洋保护区提案（Domain 1 MPA，简称D1MPA）提供全球性的政治、科学及传播支持。为此，考察队使用国家地理的深海摄像机，对西南极半岛（Western Antarctic Peninsula，简称WAP）沿岸大陆架及相关岛屿的生态系统展开探索，以捕捉南极海底及相关动物群区域的高质量影像——这些区域此前的探索程度相对较低。

此次双边考察由智利海军OPV-83“马里内罗·富恩特阿尔巴”号（Marinero Fuentealba）执行，参与人员包括两国国家南极研究所的科学家。

为研究南极大陆架的动物群生物多样性，考察队在西南极半岛（WAP）沿岸约500公里范围内的20个点位部署了诱饵相机，深度介于90至797米之间。