Notes

Contents The last of lands : an introduction to Antarctica -- Climate and weather -- Snow and ice -- The icecap -- Glaciers -- Sea ice -- Rocks beneath the ice -- The dry valleys -- The aurora -- Surviving the cold -- Land plants -- Land animals -- Life in the Southern Ocean -- Penguins -- Seals -- Whales -- Birds -- Islands of the Southern Ocean -- The Auckland Islands -- Macquarie Island -- South Georgia -- The South Shetland Islands -- The early navigators -- Jean Bouvet de Lozier -- Joseph de Kerguélen-Trémarec -- James Cook -- Thaddeus von Bellingshausen -- The sealers -- James Weddell -- The Enderby brothers -- Dumont d'Urville -- Charles Wilkes -- James Clark Ross -- the Challenger expedition -- The whalers -- H.J. Bull -- Adrien de Gerlache -- Carsten Borchgrevink -- Erick von Drygalski -- Robert Scott, 1901-04 -- Otto Nordenskjöld -- The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition -- Jean-Baptiste Charcot -- Ernest Shackleton, 1907-09 -- Roald Amundsen -- Robert Scott, 1910-13 -- Wilhelm Filchner -- The Japanese South Polar Expedition -- Douglas Mawson -- Ernest Shackleton, 1914-17 -- The British Imperial Expedition -- Ernest Shackleton, 1921-22 -- Discovery investigations -- Sir Hubert Wilkins -- Richard Byrd, 1928-29 -- Douglas Mawson and BANZARE -- Richard Byrd, 1934-41 -- The British Graham Land Expedition -- Lincoln Ellsworth -- The Schwabenland expedition -- Operation Highjump -- The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition -- Operation Deepfreeze and the IGY -- David Lewis -- The Transglobe Expedition -- Tourism -- Mapping Antarctica -- Search for the South Magnetic Pole -- Whaling -- Dressed for the cold -- On the march -- Food -- Shelter -- Antarctic medicine -- Entertainment and pastimes -- Sledge dogs -- The historic huts -- The women they left behind -- Going places -- Bases in Antarctica -- A day in the life -- The Antarctic Treaty -- Resources -- Antarctic atlas -- Time chart -- Biographies.