Figure 1. The AKES survey was conducted as two separate expeditions or legs. Leg_1 started from Montevideo, Uruguay 4th of January 2008 and ended in Cape Town, South Africa 14th of February. Leg_2 started when the vessel departed Cape Town 19th of February 2008 to survey the Southern Ocean along two transects, to and from the Astrid Ridge, and ended 28th of March 2008 in Walvis Bay, Namibia.
