Author: Alison LesterPublisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 0143789252
Category : Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Place of publication taken from publisher's website.
One Small Island
Author: Alison LesterPublisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 0143789252
Category : Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Place of publication taken from publisher's website.
A Hostile Beauty
Author: Alistair DermerPublisher: The Miegunyah Press
ISBN: 0522855040
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
There are few places today that are truly wild. Macquarie Island is still one such place-a small, wind-blasted rocky outcrop between Tasmania and Antarctica. In exquisite pictures and words, A Hostile Beauty tells the story of this extraordinary Australian outpost teeming with life. Alistair Dermer's stunning photography gives us an up-close look at the lives of the inhabitants: gentle gentoo penguins, engorged elephant-seal bulls and scavenging skuas, and takes us deep into a landscape that is as beautiful and life-giving as it is hostile and pitiless. Let these superb images, from the fury of the squalling Southern Ocean to the warm, trusting eyes of a seal pup, transport you to one of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth.
Subantarctic Macquarie Island
Author: Patricia SelkirkPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521266338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This fascinating and readable account will appeal to all those interested in the Antarctic region in general.
Subantarctic Wilderness
Author: Aleks TeraudsPublisher: Jacana Books
ISBN: 9781741753028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
"Approximately 1500 km south-east of Tasmania and 1100 km south-west of New Zealand lies Macquarie Island. The spellbinding beauty of this small, isolated subantarctic island is captured in this book through the lens of author Aleks Terauds and through the illustrations of co-author and designer Fiona Stewart. Terauds' empathy with this wild place comes through his many months spent there each year studying albatrosses. Part of Australia, an International Biosphere Reserve and a World Heritage Area, the island is a wildlife paradise but once it was a centre for sealers and a stop-over for Antarctic explorers. Today a research station maintained by the Australian Antarctic Division focuses on climate change, wildlife research, meteorology and geology. The island is a regular drop-off point for the increasing number of visitors to Antarctic and other subantarctic islands. With only 30,000 words to describe the islands geology, flora, fauna and human history, the wonderful visual elements of the book are left to tell the island's compelling story."--Provided by publisher.
One of the Wonder Spots of the World
Author: Robert CoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Macquarie Island Nature Reserve
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Shores of Macquarie Island
Author: Isobel BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Sub-Antarctic By-ways: the History of Macquarie Island
Author: John Stanley CumpstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Sub-Antarctic Sanctuary
Author: Mary E. GillhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Macquarie Island
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Macquarie Island
Author: Michael PembertonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780724662227
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
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