THE DURHAM UKST GALAXY REDSHIFT SURVEY - V - THE CATALOG/

We present the radial velocities and blue, optical magnitudes for all of the galaxies within the Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey. This ca talogue consists of similar to 2500 galaxy redshifts to a limiting app arent magnitude of b(J) similar or equal to 17 mag, covering a similar to 1500-deg(2) area around the South Galactic Pole. The galaxies in t his survey were selected from the Edinburgh/Durham Southern Galaxy Cat alogue and were sampled, in order of apparent magnitude, at a rate of one galaxy in every three. The spectroscopy was performed at the 1.2-m UK Schmidt Telescope in Australia using the FLAIR multi-object spectr ograph. We show that our radial velocity measurements made with this i nstrument have an empirical accuracy of +/-150 km s(-1). The observati onal techniques and data reduction procedures used in the construction of this survey are also discussed. This survey demonstrates that the UKST can be used to make a three-dimensional map of the large-scale ga laxy distribution, via a redshift survey to b(J) similar or equal to 1 7 mag, over a wide area of the sky.