Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]Bloomsbury Academic, 11.12.2003 - 797 sivua Covers the entire history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, from the voyage of Pytheas ca. 325 B.C. to the present, in one convenient, comprehensive reference resource. By approaching polar exploration biographically, geographically, and topically, Mills reveals a number of intriguing connections between the various explorers, their patrons and times, and the process of discovery in all areas of the polar regions. Furthermore, he provides the reader with a clear understanding of the intellectual climate as well as the dominant social, economic, and political forces surrounding each expedition. Readers will learn why the journeys were undertaken, not just where, when, and how.
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... sighted on 30 January . This was the second sighting of the Antarctic continent , occurring only three days after Bellingshausen's first sighting . Smith and Bransfield continued northward past the largely fogbound peninsula and then ...
... sighted 240 miles east of Elephant Island . This was the South Orkney Islands , and Beaufoy's sighting came only six days after the discovery of this archipelago by George Powell and Nathaniel Palmer . Weddell did not investigate ...
... sighted on 11 July 1897 , floating north toward the Pole from northern Spitsbergen . Cape Flora was one of the very last places where the balloonists might yet be found alive ; if they had reached Franz Josef Land , it was almost ...
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