CONCLUSIONS

During a 39 days (of total 63 including transits) cruise in the Southern Atlantic Ocean we obtained:

• medium to high resolution swath bathymetry data of the Bouvet and Conrad FZ and of the Southern tips of MAR; figure 11 shows the compilation of bathymetric data from the two cruises of 1994 and 1996,
• magnetometric and gravity data,
• rock samples of the Bouvet and Conrad FZ and MAR.

The data is under detailed processing and analysis, and we expect to have new insights into the geology of the investigated areas.

Weather conditions in the study area were generally bad to very bad, except for very few days.

No problems were encountered regarding neither the people nor environment during the cruise.

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Figure 11: Compilation of bathymetric data from Cruises S18 (R/V A.N.Strakhov) and G96 (R/V Gelendzhik).