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ISBN: 9780707745442
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Languages : en
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Author: Great Britain. Hydrographic Department
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Author: Naval Photographic Interpretation Center (U.S.)
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Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 147

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Author: R. J. Sinsigalli
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781563118142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: R. K. Headland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521309035
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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This book lists Antarctic expeditions and related historical events from 700 BC to the time of publication in 1989.

Author: David Day
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199323623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination. David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating detail every aspect of this vast land's history--two centuries of exploration, scientific investigation, and contentious geopolitics. Drawing from archives from around the world, Day provides a sweeping, large-scale history of Antarctica. Focusing on the dynamic personalities drawn to this unconquered land, the book offers an engaging collective biography of explorers and scientists battling the elements in the most hostile place on earth. We see intrepid sea captains picking their way past icebergs and pushing to the edge of the shifting pack ice, sanguinary sealers and whalers drawn south to exploit "the Penguin El Dorado," famed nineteenth-century explorers like Scott and Amundson in their highly publicized race to the South Pole, and aviators like Clarence Ellsworth and Richard Byrd, flying over great stretches of undiscovered land. Yet Antarctica is also the story of nations seeking to incorporate the Antarctic into their national narratives and to claim its frozen wastes as their own. As Day shows, in a place as remote as Antarctica, claiming land was not just about seeing a place for the first time, or raising a flag over it; it was about mapping and naming and, more generally, knowing its geographic and natural features. And ultimately, after a little-known decision by FDR to colonize Antarctica, claiming territory meant establishing full-time bases on the White Continent. The end of the Second World War would see one last scramble for polar territory, but the onset of the International Geophysical Year in 1957 would launch a cooperative effort to establish scientific bases across the continent. And with the Antarctic Treaty, science was in the ascendant, and cooperation rather than competition was the new watchword on the ice. Tracing history from the first sighting of land up to the present day, Antarctica is a fascinating exploration of this deeply alluring land and man's struggle to claim it.

Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
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Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 59

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Category : Antarctica
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Author: H. J. G. Dartnall
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Category : Rotifera
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Author: Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415970245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1146

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Antarctica is the only major part of the Earth's landmass not directly governed by one nation, but under the control of a treaty, with a multitude of acceding nations. This reference brings together large quantities of information on the wide variety of factors, issues, and individuals influencing and relating to the Antarctic.