• Media type: Book
  • Title: Mapping Antarctica : a five hundred year record of discovery
  • Contains: Arctic and Antarctic regions are not poles apartDrivers 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.
  • Contributor: Clancy, Robert [Author]; Manning, John [Author]; Brolsma, Henk [Author]
  • imprint: Dordrecht; Heidelberg [u.a.]: Springer [u.a.], 2014
  • Published in: Springer praxis books
  • Extent: XX, 328 S.; Ill., graph. Darst., Kt
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9400743203; 9789400743205
  • RVK notation: ZI 9790 : Historische Karten
    RY 70217 : Historische Karten, Globen, Ansichten
    RY 70026 : Geschichte der Entdeckungsreisen
  • Keywords: Antarktika > Entdeckung > Kartografie > Geschichte 1482-2010
    Antarktis
    Erforschung > Kartierung
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  • Footnote: Literaturangaben

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