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The Siboga expedition was a Dutch zoological and hydrographic expedition to Indonesia from March 1899 to February 1900.
The leader of the expedition was Max Carl Wilhelm Weber. Other members of the crew were his wife Anna Weber-van Bosse, the zoologist and first assistant Jan Versluys, the zoologist and second assistant Hugo Frederik Nierstrasz, the physician A. Schmidt, and the artist Jozef Willem Huysmans. Captain Gustaaf Frederik Tydeman was responsible for making hydrographic measurements.
Phycology is the scientific study of algae. Also known as algology, phycology is a branch of life science.
Max Carl Wilhelm Weber van Bosse or Max Wilhelm Carl Weber was a German-Dutch zoologist and biogeographer.
The Society for the Promotion of the Physical Exploration of the Dutch Colonies was founded on 14 May 1890 in Amsterdam, with the mission of increasing the knowledge of the botany of the Dutch colonies.
Jean Paul Louis Pelseneer was a Belgian malacologist, morphologist, ethologist and phylogenist.
Anton Willem Nieuwenhuis was a Dutch explorer and physician who travelled extensively in central Borneo in the 1890s, recording valuable ethnographic information about the Dayak people and making biological collections.
Weber's sailfin lizard or Halmahera sailfin dragon, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Indonesia.
MV Plancius, formerly HNLMS Tydeman (A906), is a renovated oceanographic research vessel of the Royal Netherlands Navy now employed as a polar expedition cruise vessel by owner and operator Oceanwide Expeditions. She was commissioned into the Royal Netherlands Navy on 10 November 1976, and served until 2004, before being renovated for commercial use. The vessel was used for both military and civilian research and had a fracture zone named after it.
Mattheus Marinus Schepman was a Dutch malacologist. He was one of the foremost collectors of mollusc shells in the Netherlands, and was also high on the overall list of European collectors.
Tydemania navigatoris, the fleshy-lipped spikefish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Triacanthodidae, the spikefishes. This species is found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans where it occurs at depths of from 50 to 607 metres. This species grows to a length of 12 centimetres (4.7 in) SL. This fish is specialized to feed on the scales of other fishes. This species is the only known member of the genus Tydemania.
The Koetei-class was a class of three colonial schroefstoomschepen 4e klasse (gunboats) built by the Nederlandse Scheepsbouw Maatschappij in Amsterdam and Maatschappij voor Scheeps- en Werktuigbouw Fijenoord in Rotterdam for the Royal Netherlands Navy. The class comprised Koetei, Siboga and Assahan.
Anna Antoinette Weber-van Bosse was a Dutch phycologist, specializing in marine algae.
Jan Valckenier Suringar was a Dutch botanist. His surname is spelled "Valckenier Suringar" with the name "Valckenier" being his mother's maiden name. He was the son of botanist Willem Frederik Reinier Suringar 1832–1898.
Pieter Nicolaas van Kampen was a Dutch zoologist.
Hugo Frederik Nierstrasz was a Dutch zoologist, known for his research in the fields of malacology and carcinology.
Jan Versluys was a Dutch zoologist.
Carl Frederik Wandel was a Danish naval officer and polar explorer. He was largely involved in hydrographic work.
The Valdivia Expedition, or Deutsche Tiefsee-Expedition, was a scientific expedition organised and funded by the German Empire under Kaiser Wilhelm II and was named after the ship which was bought and outfitted for the expedition, the SS Valdivia. It was led by the marine biologist Carl Chun and the expedition ran from 1898-1899 with the purpose of exploring the depths of the oceans below 500 fathoms, which had not been explored by the earlier Challenger Expedition.
Ethel Sarel Gepp, also publishing as Ethel Sarel Barton, was a phycologist who specialized in the study of marine algae and is noted for her work reordering the genus Halimeda.
Gualtherus Carel Jacob Vosmaer was a Dutch zoologist.
Weber Deep is the deepest point in the Banda Sea off Indonesia. Weber Deep maximum depth is 7,351 meters,. Banda Sea is connected to the Pacific Ocean, near the Maluku Islands of Indonesia in the Banda Arc. Weber Deep differs from other deep sea points in that Weber Deep is not a deep sea trench, but is a forearc basin, a deep abyssal plain. The slab detachment is at the east end of the deep. Weber Deep is the 16th deepest point in the Earth's oceans and seas.