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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... February with no survivors . By mid - February , the icebreakers were closing in on NP - 1 , and Papanin was instructed to level a landing strip . On 16 February , G. P. Vlasov landed . Ironically , he had been searching not for them ...
... February 1931. Princess Astrid Coast was discovered on 5 February 1931 by Captain H. Halvorsen of the whaler Sevilla , and Prince Harald Coast was not discovered until six years later on 4 February 1937 by Viggo Widerøe , Nils Romnaes ...
... February . Soon afterward , rapidly shallowing soundings indicated that at last Norvegia might again be approaching land . Two days later , land was clearly within view , slopes of ice rising to 300 meters and fringed by ice cliffs ...
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