The 6dF Galaxy Survey has collected more than 120,000 redshifts over the southern sky over a 5 year period from 2001 to 2005. Its goal is to map our southern view of the local universe, and use the peculiar motions of one-tenth of the survey to measure galaxy mass. It covers more than eight times the sky area of the successful 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey.

Much of the data have already been made public through the 6dFGS Online Database, maintained by the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh. The final instalment of data will be released this (southern) Summer.