Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to AntarcticaHarvard University Press, 2007 - 399 pàgines In 2002, environmental historian Tom Griffiths set sail with the Australian Antartic Division to deliver a new team of winterers. In this book, Griffiths reflects on the history of human experiences in Antartica, taking the reader on a journey of exploration, discovery and adventure in an unforgettable land. |
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... looked across the Southern Ocean from Australia in 1953 and reflected that ' somewhere beneath this expanse of water lies the lost continent of Gondwanaland ' . Two hundred million years before , in Permian times , he imagined a vista ...
... looked across the Southern Ocean from Australia in 1953 and reflected that ' somewhere beneath this expanse of water lies the lost continent of Gondwanaland ' . Two hundred million years before , in Permian times , he imagined a vista ...
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... looked like formal delegations and they nearly always approached visiting parties and exuded an air of confident ownership . From a distance , in the illusive Antarctic air , they looked like a troop of uniformed men . The French in ...
... looked like formal delegations and they nearly always approached visiting parties and exuded an air of confident ownership . From a distance , in the illusive Antarctic air , they looked like a troop of uniformed men . The French in ...
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... looked across the Kent Group of islands and glimpsed ' a scene of such wildness that for the first time , we were forced to visualise New Zealand to the East and South America to the West as the only windbreaks at 40 ° South ' . Between ...
... looked across the Kent Group of islands and glimpsed ' a scene of such wildness that for the first time , we were forced to visualise New Zealand to the East and South America to the West as the only windbreaks at 40 ° South ' . Between ...
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Adélie Adélie penguins albatross American Amundsen ANARE Antarctic Division Antarctic Expedition Antarctic Peninsula Antarctic Treaty Antarctica Arctic Aurora Australian Antarctic base became Bernacchi birds biscuit blizzard British Byrd Byrd's Cape Captain Casey station Cherry-Garrard cold colony continent Cook Davis degrees south Dewart diary Discovery Douglas Mawson Earth eggs Emperors environmental Ernest Shackleton expeditioners geological glacier Gould historian human Huntford ice age ice sheet icebergs Island John kilometres land latitude Laurence McKinley Gould Little America London Magnetic Pole Mawson station Mawson's Hut McMurdo Melbourne metres miles Murphy nations North Norwegian Paquita party Phillip Law Pointe Géologie polar political Pyne roaring forties Robert rock Ronne Ross Sea Russians sailed scientific scientists Scott sea ice ship silence Sitting on Penguins snow South Georgia South Pole Southern Ocean Soviet Stephen Murray-Smith summer Swithinbank Sydney University Press voyage whaling wind winter wrote
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Being Australian: Narratives of national identity Catriona Elder Previsualització no disponible - 2007 |