The paper presents an outline of the first Austrian expedition to the Northern part of the Red Sea with the R/V Pola.

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1989 NOAA-NCEI compiled the NOAA-MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database from journal articles, technical reports and unpublished sources from other institutions.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: Natterer, Konrad (1899): Chemische Untersuchungen im Rothen Meere. Aus den Berichten der Commission für oceanographische Forschungen, Monatshefte für Chemie, 20(1-2), 1-264