The observations described in this report were made during the NAGA Expedition, Phase 1 between San Diego and Honolulu in June 1959 by Scripps Institution of Oceanography from, the R/V Stanger. Cores, bottom photographs and dredges are available at Scripps for sampling and study.

Bottom photographs are part of a collection made available by the U.S. Navy Electronics, San Diego and can be downloaded from NOAA-NCEI: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/idb/struts/results?op_28=eq&v_28=09995025&t=101477&s=1&d=2. The NAGA images data card can be accessed here: hdl:10013/epic.46602.d013.From 1983 until 1989 NOAA-NCEI compiled the NOAA-MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database from journal articles, technical reports and unpublished sources from other institutions. At the time it was the most extended data compilation on ferromanganese deposits world wide. Initially published in a proprietary format incompatible with present day standards it was jointly decided by AWI and NOAA to transcribe this legacy data into PANGAEA. This transfer is augmented by a careful checking of the original sources when available and the encoding of ancillary information (sample description, method of analysis...) not present in the NOAA-MMS database.

Supplement to: Faughn, James L (1974): Naga Expedition: station index and data. UC San Diego: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 177 pp