Author: United States Board on Geographic NamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Gazetteer of the Antarctic
Author: United States Board on Geographic NamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Geographic Names of the Antarctic
Author: Fred G. AlbertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Gazetteer
Author: United States Board on Geographic NamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Encyclopedia of the Antarctic
Author: Beau RiffenburghPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113587865X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description
The Antarctic is unique, geographically, politically, and scientifically. It is the most remote, hostile, and dangerous continent, while at the same time it is the most pristine and least developed. Antarctica is the only major part of the Earth's landmass not directly governed by one nation, but under the control of a Treaty, with a multitude of acceding nations. The Encyclopedia of the Antarctic brings together large quantities of information on the wide variety of factors, issues and individuals influencing and relating to the Antarctic. No comparable book currently exists for this region. The Encyclopedia of the Antarctic discusses scientific activities and topics, but the 'human element' is also a significant part of the work, with entries on history, politics, legal issues, national research programs, scientific bases, historic huts, the United Nation's 'Question of Antarctica,' compliance with the Environmental Protocol, and tourism.
Antarctic Journal of the United States
Author: Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica
Author: Klaus DoddsPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1784717681
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
The Antarctic and Southern Ocean are hotspots for contemporary endeavours to oversee 'the last frontier' of the Earth. The Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica offers a wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the governance, geopolitics, international law, cultural studies and history of the region. Four thematic sections take readers from the earliest human encounters to contemporary resource exploitation and climate change. Written by leading experts, the Handbook brings together the very best interdisciplinary social science and humanities scholarship on the Antarctic and Southern Ocean.
United States Board on Geographic Names: Gazetteer
Author: United States Board on Geographic NamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Antarctica
Author: David DayPublisher:
ISBN: 0190641320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
In this addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know(R) series, David Day examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. For over a century following its discovery by European explorers in 1820, Antarctica played host to competing claims by rival nations vying for access to the frozen land's vast marine resources -- namely the skins and oils of seals and whales. Though the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 was meant to end this contention, countries have found other means of extending control over the land, with scientific bases establishing at least symbolic claims. Exploration and drilling by the United States, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, and others has led to discoveries about the world's climate in centuries past -- and in the process intimations of its alarming future. Delving into all the relevant issues -- the history of the continent, its wildlife, underwater mountain ranges, arguments over governance, and the continent's effect on global climate change -- Day's work sheds new light on a territory that, despite being the coldest, driest, and windiest continent in the world, will continue to be the object of intense speculation and competition. With new evidence that Antarctica's ice is melting three times faster than it was a decade ago, the need to understand the world's southernmost region has never been more pressing.
Antarctica
Author: United States. Geographic Names DivisionPublisher: Washington : [s.n.]
ISBN:
Category : Antarctic regions Gazetteers
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Imperial Gazetteer
Author: Walter Graham BlackiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gazetteers
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description