10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO»
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Antarctic Archipelago in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of ...
The evidence for an Antarctic archipelago came from Robert McCormick, the
naturalist on James Ross's 1839–43 expedition who mistakenly characterized all
of Victoria Land's mountains as volcanic, and from other explorers who reported ...
Thus the marine Antarctic has a much longer history as a cold-water habitat than
does the marine Arctic. In the Miocene, the mountainous western Antarctic
archipelago was covered by sea ice which, in the terminal Miocene event 6.5-5
Ma, ...
Klaus Lüning, Charles Yarish, Hugh Kirkman, 1990
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A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical: Of ...
The Antarctic archipelago, or Antarctic lande, under which denomination we
include all the islands situated beyond S6° S. lat., neit claims attention. The
greater part of these islands have been recently discovered ; they are all
uninhabited, are ...
John Ramsay McCulloch, 1841
4
Antarctic Earth Science
The winnowed sand bed in Core 21A and this erosional surface may have
formed, as at Site 272, by bottom currents flowing through the West Antarctic
archipelago, or by the erosion of soft biogenic sediment deposited during a
temporary ...
R. L. Oliver, P. R. James, J. B. Jago, 1983
5
Antarctic and Subantarctic Pycnogonida: Nymphonidae, ...
... enlarge this known distribution to the vicinity of the South Sandwich Islands,
Bransfield Strait, in the Weddell Sea, and predominantly in the Ross Sea, South
Shetland Islands and islands of the Antarctic Archipelago in depths of 35-265 m.
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Abstracts of papers submitted for seven meetings with which ...
Land ice also covered the western Antarctic archipelago, but no more could
accumulate in Antarctica until further cooling allowed “cold” shelf ice to spread,
thicken, and come to ground in the former strait between eastern Antarctica and
the ...
7
Antarctica in the International Geophysical Year: Based on a ...
... mode of origin, Sci. Res. Norwegian Antarctic Exped. 1927-1928 et seq., 18,
Norske Videns. Akad., Oslo, 1-64, 1939. Barth, T. F. W., Notes on igneous and
palingenic rocks from the Antarctic Archipelago; a contribution to the petrology of
...
American Geophysical Union, 1956
8
Biology of the Southern Ocean, Second Edition
Short-term variation and long-term changes in the oceanographic environment
and zooplankton community in the vicinity of a sub-Antarctic archipelago. Mar.
Bio/.. 138, 369-38 1 , 200 1 . Hunter, S., The food and feeding ecology of the giant
...
9
Antarctica:: A Keystone in a Changing World
Initial growth is in coastal mountains, such as in Dronning Maud Land, along the
Transantarctic Mountains, in the West Antarctic archipelago, and in the high
Gamburtsev Mountains in the interior. The ice spreads out from these mountain ...
Edmund Stump, Woody Wise, Bryan Storey, 2008
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Legacies and Change in Polar Sciences: Historical, Legal and ...
In the early 1950s, Chile and Argentina opened new bases in the Antarctic
archipelago to dispel British hopes that they might retreat from their territorial
claims. Argentinean President Juan Domingo Peron forcefully stated his resolve
to defend ...
Dr Monica Tennberg, Dr Jessica M Shadian, 2013
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO»
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Antarctic Archipelago is used in the context of the following news items.
Gift Funds Virginia Institute of Marine Science's Antarctic Expedition
... trip is part of the Long-Term Ecological Research program at the U.S. Palmer Research Station on Anvers Island in the Antarctic archipelago. «Williamsburg Yorktown Daily, Feb 15»
The Most Remote Museum on Earth
Approaching from the west, over the sedimentary mountains that form this sub-Antarctic archipelago, you walk through a rusted orange skyline of partially ... «Roads and Kingdoms, May 14»
DNA Study Suggests Extremely Rare Type D Killer Whale May Be …
One of seven currently known records of killer whales Orcinus orca type D: near the Crozet Islands, a sub-antarctic archipelago in the southern ... «Sci-News.com, Jun 13»
Hot and Cold: Long-Suspected Antarctic Undersea Volcanoes …
In addition to the 11 volcanic islands that make up this Antarctic archipelago, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) recently discovered that 12 ... «Scientific American, Jul 11»
Penguins escape huge earthquake
An earthquake on a remote Antarctic archipelago home to 850,000 King Penguins was the strongest on earth in four years, seismologists say. «BBC News, Dec 04»
