Terra Incognita: Travels in AntarcticaJ. Cape, 1996 - Всего страниц: 306 Sara Wheeler was the first woman selected by the American government to be the Writer in Residence at the US South Pole Station. She spent six weeks at the pole. In this book she reveals how people live on the bases and how the landscape affects them. |
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... mountains form a ring around much of the continent . Beyond these coastal heights , in the interior , topography tends to disappear into thousands of miles of apparently flat ice - the enor- mous polar plateau . Mountain ranges as high ...
... mountains form a ring around much of the continent . Beyond these coastal heights , in the interior , topography tends to disappear into thousands of miles of apparently flat ice - the enor- mous polar plateau . Mountain ranges as high ...
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... mountains zigzagged downwards in gradations of creamy blue . The sky was mottled with cirro - stratus like fishscales , and shafts of sunlight fell on the creased surface of an ice tongue , a massive projection fed by two glaciers ...
... mountains zigzagged downwards in gradations of creamy blue . The sky was mottled with cirro - stratus like fishscales , and shafts of sunlight fell on the creased surface of an ice tongue , a massive projection fed by two glaciers ...
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... Mountains , many of them vastly large ... From Captain Cook's journal , January 1774 COSSIL BLUFF lies about 230 miles from Rothera on the east coast of Alexander Island . A group of men from the British Graham Land Expedition were the ...
... Mountains , many of them vastly large ... From Captain Cook's journal , January 1774 COSSIL BLUFF lies about 230 miles from Rothera on the east coast of Alexander Island . A group of men from the British Graham Land Expedition were the ...
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