Author : Sir Vivian Fuchs
Publisher : Anthony Nelson
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Antarctica
ISBN :
An account of the first thirty years of an Antarctic expedition which has been continuously at work since 1943.
Author : Peter Fretwell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0141995610
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ESTWA AWARD FOR ILLUSTRATED TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 One of the least-known places on the planet, the only continent on earth with no indigenous population, Antarctica is a world apart. From a leading cartographer with the British Antarctic Survey, this new collection of maps and data reveals Antarctica as we have never seen it before. This is not just a book of traditional maps. It measures everything from the thickness of ice beneath our feet to the direction of ice flows. It maps volcanic lakes, mountain ranges the size of the Alps and gorges longer than the Grand Canyon, all hidden beneath the ice. It shows us how air bubbles trapped in ice tell us what the earth's atmosphere was like 750,000 years ago, proving the effects of greenhouse gases. Colonies of emperor penguins abound around the coastline, and the journeys of individual seals around the continent and down to the sea bed in search of food have been intricately tracked and mapped. Twenty-nine nations have research stations in Antarctica and their unique architecture is laid out here, along with the challenges of surviving in Antarctica'sunforgiving environment. Antarctica is also the frontier of our fight against climate change. If its ice melts, it will swamp almost every coastal city in the world. Antarctic Atlas illustrates the harsh beauty and magic of this mysterious continent, and shows how, far from being abstract, it has direct relevance to us all.
Author : Ruth Slavid
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 9783906027661
For more than fifty years, Halley Research Station-located on the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica's Weddell Sea-has collected a continuous stream of meteorological and atmospheric data critical to our understanding of polar atmospheric chemistry, rising sea levels, and the depletion of the ozone layer. Since the station's establishment in 1956, there have been six Halley stations, each designed to withstand the difficult climatic conditions. The first four stations were crushed by snow. The fifth featured a steel platform, allowing it to rise above snow cover, but it, too, had to be abandoned when it moved too far from the mainland, making it precarious. Commissioned by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and completed in 2012, Halley VI is the winning design from a competition in collaboration with the Royal Institute of British Architects. Designed by London-based Hugh Broughton Architects and AECOM, a US-based architecture and engineering firm, the structure cannot just rise to avoid being engulfed by accumulating snow, but it is also the first research station able to be fully relocatable, its eight modules situated atop ski-fitted hydraulic legs. This book tells the story of this iconic piece of architecture's design and creation, supplemented with many illustrations, including plans and previously unpublished photographs.
Author : Sandra Ross
Publisher : British Council Design
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 9780863557170
'Ice Lab' include architectural drawings, models, photographs, and films that give the visitor a sense of what it takes to live and work in Antarctica. Sources of inspiration for the projects including an original drawing from Archigram's 'Walking City' are on display as well as a newly commissioned film and audio work by artist Torsten Laushmann.
Author : Łukasz Michalczyk
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2022
Category :
ISBN : 9781776884728
"Abstract: This paper is the fifth monograph of the series that describes the global records of limno-terrestrial water bears (Tardigrada). Here, we provide a comprehensive list of non-marine tardigrades recorded from Australasia, providing an updated and revised taxonomy accompanied by geographic co-ordinates, habitat, and biogeographic comments. It is hoped this work will serve as a reference point and background for further zoogeographical and taxonomical studies. Keywords: Australia, biogeography, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, species list, tardigrades, water bears"--Page 4.
Author : Jean McNeil
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1770908765
What do we stand to lose in a world without ice? A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer in residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world's most enigmatic continent, Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth which is nobody's country. Ice Diaries is the story of McNeil's years spent in ice, not only in the Antarctic but her subsequent travels in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard, culminating in a strange event in Cape Town, South Africa, where she journeyed to make what was to be her final trip to the southernmost continent. In the spirit of the diaries of Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, McNeil mixes travelogue, popular science and memoir to examine the history of our fascination with ice. In entering this world, McNeil unexpectedly finds herself confronting her own upbringing in the Maritimes, the lifelong effects of growing up in a cold place, and how the climates of childhood frame our emotional thermodynamics for life. Ice Diaries is a haunting story of the relationship between beauty and terror, loss and abandonment, transformation and triumph.
Author : British Antarctic Survey
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780565094652
Focusing on the geography and physical phenomena of this remote region, this book contains all the information visitors will need during their trip. It describes and explains the geographical setting, climate and weather, geology, glaciology, and much more, and includes the location of research stations and historic sites
Author : D. W. H. Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 110700392X
A dramatically illustrated book, by leading international scientists, which describes Antarctica's central role in global scientific research.
Author : Natural Environment Research Council (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 11,80 MB
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN :
Summary of the value of Antarctic research, historical background of British activity, Antarctic research policy and British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
Author : Kevin Walton
Publisher : Images (GB)
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
This book takes a nostalgic look back at the years when dogs were the sole means of travel in Antarctica; it is also indicative of a relationship that is fundamenta l and has stood the test of time. It includes stories from 3 0 contributors. '
