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Mapping Antarctica : a five hundred year record of discovery
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- Creator
- Robert Clancy, John Manning, Henk Brolsma
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- English
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- Dordrecht ; New York ; London : Springer ; Chichester, UK : Published in association with Praxis Publishing, [2014]
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- xx, 328 pages : illustrations, maps (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789400743205, 9400743211, 9400743203, 9789400743212
- OCLC
- ocn865015777, ocn800865101
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Arctic and Antarctic regions are not poles apart -- Drivers of discovery -- Antarctica -- the concept : from Ptolemy to Cook -- Antarctica -- the reality : from Cook to the International Geographical Congress -- Antarctica -- the heroic age : heroes, legends, and land -- Antarctica -- wings over the continent : from Wilkins to war -- Antarctica 1940-1960 : a second world war and a new order of business -- Consolidation of political interest and national mapping programs (1950-2010) -- Antarctic science comes of age : window on the world (1960-2010) -- Atlas maps