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Geological investigations in the Falkland Islands Dependencies before 1940

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Raymond J. Adie
Raymond J. Adie
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Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, Department of Geology, University of Birmingham.
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From the time of its discovery until the latter years of the nineteenth century Antarctica remained a terra incognita to the geologist, but in the early years of this century the Falkland Islands Dependencies attracted some academic interest, particularly from geologists. Undoubtedly this was mainly due to the fact that the Dependencies occupy one of the more accessible parts of the Antarctic continent and also bear a close geological relationship to South America.

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Polar Record , Volume 8 , Issue 57 , September 1957 , pp. 502 - 513
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957

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