Antarctica: Voices from a Silent Continent
Antarctica: Voices from the Silent Continent Montagne Jeunesse
Early explorers - Mawson - Shackleton - Amundsen - International treaties for control of the area - Antarctic Treaty System - Geology - Ice sheets - Climate - Krill and fish - Sea birds and marine animals - Tourism - Protecting the ...
Antarctica
These different attitudes were clear when Palmer set off with Powell in their separate ships to search for new islands. When they discovered islands about 600 kilometres northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula in December 1821, ...
This is the James A. Michener novel of the South Pole. If the meaty one-word title didn’t give it away, the writing would.
Charles Wilkes , an American who explored the coast of Antarctica in 1840 . Closer and Closer Over the next 50 years , there was more activity around Antarctica . Whaling boats swarmed around the icy seas . Men who made their living ...
Join author Karen Romano Young on a trip across Antarctica, hanging out with people and animals and learning about how this special place is changing, and what it means for our planet.
He made contemptuous comments about “the baggage” within Shackleton's hearing, often enough that Wilson had to pull him aside and tell him to stop. And in the end Scott and Shackleton fought. Shackleton and Wilson were packing the ...
Strange, Ian J. A Field Guide to the Wildlife of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992. Stonehouse, Bernard. ... New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1972. Tingey, RobertJ., editor.
Itcan beargued, however, thatCap deLa Circoncision wasin fact Thompson Island.It iseven possible, because ofthe distance, about 45 miles, thatBouvet sighted boththeisland which now bears his name, and Thompson Island, conceiving themto ...
MONSTER TABULARS Calvings with a linear dimension of more than 20km from the great Antarctic ice shelves of the Ross and Weddell seas, amongst others, are classified according to their origins and history. Those from the sector 0 to 90o ...
Extract from New York World-Telegram, 7 September 1933, M 1/1218/25/2296 Part 3, ANZ, Wellington; Rose, Explorer, pp. ... American Expeditions to the Dependency and Correspondence Relating to these Expeditions', undated memo, c.
"Antarctica: Earth's Final Frontier" is a 8.5" aquare photo book from Janet Kuypers, published through Scars Publications.
Mawson had been a member of the first party to climb Erebus in 1908 and had turned down the chance to attempt to reach the pole with Scott, ... Mawson's goal was to chart 3,000 kilometers of Antarctic coast that lay south of Australia.
This book follows the story of a group of researchers on their half-year stay in Antarctica. Their goal was to examine the animals, plants, atmosphere, weather, and fossils in the area.
By the time they reached the pole , they were exhausted , and running low on supplies . The blizzard was the final straw . WHY ANTARCTICA Is So COLD Each year , Antarctica receives almost as many hours of sunlight as places near the ...
The extremely cold temperatures are not the only unique aspect of temperature in the Antarctic. Temperature normally decreases with increasing altitude in the troposphere and this decrease in temperature is due to the fact that the ...
The extremely cold temperatures are not the only unique aspect of temperature in the Antarctic. Temperature normally decreases with increasing altitude in the troposphere and this decrease in temperature is due to the fact that the ...
Antarctica