Mapping Antarctica A Five Hundred Year Record of Discovery /

• Main Authors: Clancy, Robert (Author), Manning, John (Author), Brolsma, Henk (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Popular works.; Historical geology.; Geographical information systems.; Nature.; Environment.; Climate change.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Climate Change.; Historical Geology.

Everyone likes maps and maps are always used to illustrate the many books on the Antarctic. Here the focus is reversed with contemporary maps telling the story – one that should be attractive to the widest audience as it is a unique approach complimenting what has gone before and providing something...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Concept: From Ptolemy to Cook
• Arctic and Antarctic regions are not Poles apart
• The Reality: Cook to the International Geographical Congress
• The Heroic Age: Heroes, Legends and Land
• Wings over the Continent: From Wilkins to War
• A Second World War and a New Order of Business
• Antarctica Comes of Age: Windows of the World (1960–2000)
• Post–2000: A new concept of mapping
• Tourism: A different explorer.