Author: Frederick Albert CookPublisher: London : W. Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899
Author: Frederick Albert CookPublisher: London : W. Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Antarctica and the Law of the Sea
Author: Christopher C. JoynerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004481850
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean cover one-tenth of the earth's surface. In a legal and environmental sense, Antarctica represents the geography of hope. It is the freshest and most pristine of regions, governed by a legal regime that offers Antarctica and its circumpolar water the unique possibility of becoming the world's first global wilderness preserve. But in today's age of resource scarcity, Antarctica still provokes much political, economic and legal debate. Over the past decade, international attention has increasingly focused on the legal status of the continent, the potential for hydrocarbon exploitation offshore, and opportunities for harvesting circumpolar living marine resources. In this fascinating treatment, Christopher C. Joyner undertakes the first serious examination of the intimate relationship between Antarctica and the law of the sea. Using Antarctica as a case study, Joyner probes large conceptual issues of ocean law and politics. He uses the intricate details of oceanography and law to unravel the dynamics of the Antarctic Treaty System. In doing so, he examines how the changing importance of Antarctic issues has affected the development of the law of the sea for the region, the ways in which states define their national interests, and the accommodation through various negotations that have contributed to the development of law for governing the Southern Ocean. While the study of law for the Antarctic is provocative in itself, this work goes much farther. The study critically analyzes the region's biogeography, the condition of sovereignty on the continent, the lawfulness of asserting jurisdictional zones offshore, and various legal implications for Antarctica's continental shelf, local island groups, circumpolar deep seabed, and the Southern Ocean's high seas. Moreover, the special legal efforts by the international community to protect the Antarctic seas from marine pollution and to conserve its living marine resources are comprehensively appraised. Thorough, authoritative, and objectively reasoned, Antarctica and the Law of the Sea provides an insightful assessment of how law can progressively develop for a resource-rich region of the world's ocean. As such, it should appeal to a broad range of international lawyers and social scientists who are interested in international relations, political economy, environmental politics, and the law of the sea.
Before the Heroes Came
Author: T. H. BaughmanPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803261631
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the 1820s, it was not until an eccentric Anglo-Norwegian explorer, Carsten F. Borchgrevink, went ashore in 1895 that a human being set foot on the Antarctic continent. Borchgrevink, snubbed by the British establishment, had stolen a march on several planned competing expeditions from Germany and Scandinavia. ø Borchgrevink returned to Antarctica in 1899 with a party that was the first to winter over on the continent. Regrettably, bad weather and unscalable mountains limited their forays inland. Borchgrevink's survival was proof that with adequate supplies, the Antarctic winter was survivable, and that with a better geographic position, the enormous unknown of the continent could be investigated. ø Borchgrevink galvanized the British geographical authorities who had come to consider polar exploration their exclusive province. Led by Sir Clements Markham of the Royal Geographic Society, the British keenly felt his blow to their national pride delivered by an explorer they regarded as an arrogant upstart. The RGS pushed forward with its plans, and a tragic competition to be the first to reach the South Pole was set in motion between the British and the Scandinavians. ø This work is anøaccount of the first tentative human gropings in Antarctica, concentrating on the coalescing of official and popular attitudes that later resulted in the polar races of Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen, which dominate the story of the "Heroic Era" of Antarctic exploration, from 1901 to 1922.
A History of Antarctic Science
Author: Gordon Elliott FoggPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521361132
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
This is the first book to draw together a history of science in Antarctica.
Fifteen Months in the Antarctic
Author: Adrien De Gerlache de GomeryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, 1901-1914
Author: The Glacial Anticyclones
Author: William Herbert HobbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Special Publication
Author: United States Board on Geographic NamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Board of RegentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Author: