Category Archives: Expedition

Gifts from Christmas Island

Click HERE to download article. The third and last expedition to Christmas Island and Cocos Keeling Islands carried out by the Raffles Museum was featured in the Straits Times last Saturday! This follows the coverage we received in the local … Continue reading

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Photos from New Caledonia

Aipysurus laevis Gymnothorax thyrsoideus Crinoid with manta in the background Moorish Idol Sea fans Seascape Silversides Sphyraena qeni All photographs by Tan Heok Hui on his recent trip to Ouvea, one of the Loyalty Islands of New Caledonia.

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Underwater treasures at Kume-jima (Ni)

Centropyge ferrugata Chrysiptera starcki An urchin Tridacna sp. [Photographs by Tan Heok Hui]

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Underwater treasures at Kume-jima (Ichi)

The dive boat coursing along the eastern side of Kume-jima. Trapezia sp. Periclimenes imperator Cirrhitichthys falco Gymnothorax meleagris Hermit crabs. [Photographs by Tan Heok Hui]

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Marine expedition to Kume-jima in the Okinawa islands, Japan

Several RMBR staff are now in Kume-jima or Kume Island as part of an international marine expedition which runs from 7 to 23 November 2009. Kume-jima is about 30 minutes flying time southwest of Okinawa. It is about one-quarter of … Continue reading

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Lumi1: Update 2

Our three intrepid crustacean researchers bring more news from the Philippine island of Lumiwan. In the picture on the left, Drs. Tan Swee Hee and Tohru Naruse and Mr. J. C. Mendoza pose onboard the MV DA-BFAR with the island … Continue reading

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Coming to you live: Lumi1 – The RMBR’s first expedition of 2008

The RMBR is currently participating in its first major expedition of 2008, in the Philippines. Drs. Tan Swee Hee, Tohru Naruse and Mr. J. C. Mendoza are currently aboard the MV DA-BFAR (background picture) off the coast of the Philippine … Continue reading

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