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Proposals for an atlas of Antarctica : provisional report
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- Creator
- by the American Geographical Society, under National Science Foundation grants G7432 and G8990
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- English
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- [New York, N.Y.] : American Geographical Society of New York, [1961]
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- 46 leaves ; 28 cm
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- ocn176229838
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- "March 25, 1961."'
- "At the first meeting of the Committee on Polar Research of the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, April 14-15, 1958, one of the recommendations of the panel on geodesy and cartography was that 'serious consideration be given on a long term basis to the preparation of an atlas of the polar regions'. As a partial consequence of this recommendation, the American Geographical Society received a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore the possibilities of an atlas of the Antarctic and to prepare a preliminary prospectus"--Leaf 1.