Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History Of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- General Editors’ Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Transnational, International, and Global
- 2 Science and Imperialism since 1870
- 3 The Geomagnetic Project: Internationalism in Science between the French Revolution and the Franco-Prussian War
- 4 International Science from the Franco-Prussian War to World War Two: An Era of Organization
- 5 Internationalism in Science After 1940
- 6 International Science in Antarctica
- 7 Missionary Science
- 8 Museums of Natural History and Science
- 9 National Scientific Surveys
- 10 Expeditionary Science
- Part II National and Regional
- Index
6 - International Science in Antarctica
from Part I - Transnational, International, and Global
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2020
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History Of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- General Editors’ Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Transnational, International, and Global
- 2 Science and Imperialism since 1870
- 3 The Geomagnetic Project: Internationalism in Science between the French Revolution and the Franco-Prussian War
- 4 International Science from the Franco-Prussian War to World War Two: An Era of Organization
- 5 Internationalism in Science After 1940
- 6 International Science in Antarctica
- 7 Missionary Science
- 8 Museums of Natural History and Science
- 9 National Scientific Surveys
- 10 Expeditionary Science
- Part II National and Regional
- Index
Summary
A century ago the only scientists in the far southern region of the planet were locked tight in the coastal ice of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea. There the British Antarctic expedition led by Ernest Shackleton was held fast in 1915 by the impenetrable ice that slowly crushed his ship during the long Antarctic winter. Russia and the United States returned to that forbidding area in 1992, capping off thirty-five years of unusual Cold War political cooperation in Antarctica by jointly staffing a research station on Weddell Sea pack ice. Both of these expeditions took place near the only continent without indigenous people or any legacy of effective national sovereignty.
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- The Cambridge History of Science , pp. 75 - 89Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020