Bathie C and Pett J (2019b) The four ladies of Prydz Bay: Notes on the naming of a submarine formation featuring in surveys of marine benthos in
Australian Antarctic Territory. The Victorian Naturalist 136, 45-47.
However, Christensen's earlier exploration work is included and Norwegian names are intertwined with those of Mawson from BANZARE in the western part of the
Australian Antarctic Territory as is shown along the coast of MacRobertson Land (Fig.
Coincidentally on that day in the Antarctic, the Red Flag was being hoisted over a new Soviet base on the
Australian Antarctic territory. The politicians were squabbling but the scientists were not.
Although ascidians have been proposed as sentinel species able to signal effects of global warming on benthic composition (Segelken-Voigt 2016), our investigation indicates that ascidians in
Australian Antarctic Territory have received little attention so far.