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Land of Wondrous Cold
Gillen D’Arcy Wood
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Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Naturwissenschaften allgemein
Beschreibung
A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughs
Antarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human intrusion. Land of Wondrous Cold tells a gripping story of the pioneering nineteenth-century voyages, when British, French, and American commanders raced to penetrate Antarctica’s glacial rim for unknown lands beyond. These intrepid Victorian explorers—James Ross, Dumont D’Urville, and Charles Wilkes—laid the foundation for our current understanding of Terra Australis Incognita.
Today, the white continent poses new challenges, as scientists race to uncover Earth’s climate history, which is recorded in the south polar ice and ocean floor, and to monitor the increasing instability of the Antarctic ice cap, which threatens to inundate coastal cities worldwide. Interweaving the breakthrough research of the modern Ocean Drilling Program with the dramatic discovery tales of its Victorian forerunners, Gillen D’Arcy Wood describes Antarctica’s role in a planetary drama of plate tectonics, climate change, and species evolution stretching back more than thirty million years. An original, multifaceted portrait of the polar continent emerges, illuminating our profound connection to Antarctica in its past, present, and future incarnations.
A deep-time history of monumental scale, Land of Wondrous Cold brings the remotest of worlds within close reach—an Antarctica vital to both planetary history and human fortunes.
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Warfare, Sea ice, Hollow Earth, In the Kingdom of Ice, Ross Ice Shelf, Ice cap, Meltwater, Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Southern Ocean, Weather, Storm, Climate of Antarctica, Antarctic Cold Reversal, Scurvy, Iceberg, Thwaites Glacier, Antarctic sea ice, Terra Australis, Glacier, Charles Wilkes, The Worst Journey in the World, Patagonia, Ice sheet, Polar Storm, Edward Sabine, Transantarctic Mountains, Continental drift, Diatom, Open Polar Sea, Beringia, Antarctic Circle, Exploration, Ice age, Antarctic ice sheet, Antarctic Peninsula, Cold Climate, Drake Passage, Ice Mountain (water), Paleomagnetism, Antarctic Convergence, Arctic Circle, Polar front, Polar wind, Ice Mountain, Polar ice cap, Fjord, Extreme environment, Ross Sea, Fimbul Ice Shelf, Durvillaea antarctica, Ice pack, Meteorology, South Magnetic Pole, Weddell Sea, McMurdo Sound, Ice field, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Snow petrel, Antarctic Plate, Extreme weather, Tundra, Tierra del Fuego, Polar exploration, Ice shelf, Ice dune, Continental crust, Antarctic, Wilkes Land, Ice, Roald Amundsen