1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica 9781619021372
“The South Pole discovered” trumpeted the front page of The Daily Chronicle on March 8, 1912, marking Roald Amundsen’s t
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Table of contents :
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: Looking Polewards
Early Ventures South
CHAPTER 2: An Audacious Plan
Ernest Shackleton and the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–1909
CHAPTER 3: A New Land
Robert Scott and the Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–1913
CHAPTER 4: Of Reindeer, Ponies and Automobiles
Roald Amundsen and the Norwegian Bid for the South Pole, 1910–1912
CHAPTER 5: The Dash Patrol
Nobu Shirase and the Japanese South Polar Expedition, 1910–1912
CHAPTER 6: Locked In
Wilhelm Filchner and the Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1912
CHAPTER 7: Ice-cold in Denison
Douglas Mawson and the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1913
CHAPTER 8: Martyrs to Gondwanaland
The Cost of Scientific Exploration
POSTSCRIPT
APPENDIX: Lord Curzon’s Notes
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SOURCES
INDEX
