The present paper deals with 17 families of polychaetes collected during the voyage of R/V "Polarstern" from May 5 to June 13, 1986. Some 71 species were found, 59 of them were already known whereas 9 species were new to science and described:
Euphrosine cirribranchis,
E. antarctica,
Lacydonia elongata,
Gyptis gracilis,
Pionosyllis elephantensis,
Sphaerosyllis palpopapillata,
Aglaophamus paramalmgreni,
Abyssoninoe orensanzi,
Coralliotrocha composita. Three speciess could not be determined to species level because of incompleteness.