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Antarctica: An Encyclopedia (2 Volume Set) (Second edition)

By John Stewart

Book information

Publisher
Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub
Year
2011
ISBN
0786435909, 9780786435906
LCC
G855 .S74 2011
Google Books ID
i6LbjwEACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL24839575M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17709788 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
1773\1773
Topic
Geography
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00
Науки о Земле;География;Справочники и энциклопедии

Description

This second edition of the 1990 Library Journal "Best Reference" book, four years in the compiling and writing, is an exhaustive A-Z direct-entry encyclopedia of Antarctica. It doubles the first edition's entries to 30,000, covering geographical features, historical events, explorers, expeditions, airplanes, ships, scientists, scientific stations, tour operators, scientific terms, birds, animals, insects, flora, items of general interest and much more. "Antarctica" is defined as all land and water south of 60°S. Information for geographical features is drawn primarily from national gazetteers, both current and old, and is not limited to ­English-­language sources. Extensive cross-referencing simplifies the continent's often bewildering nomenclature--geographical features' names, for example, may vary widely from one national gazetteer to the next, and are further complicated by having been named and renamed multiple times, and in many languages, through the years. All linguistic variations of placenames are included and cross-referenced. First Edition Award: A Library Journal Best Reference

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