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Heroic age geology in Victoria Land, Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Robert J. Tingey
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In the heroic age of Antarctic exploration—the first 15 or so years of this century (Hayes 1932)—scientific investigations took second place, at least in the public eye, to geographical exploration and its offshoot, the race to the South Pole. Nevertheless important geological discoveries were made and the basic framework of Antarctic geology was mapped out. This article describes briefly the geological work and the geologists of the expeditions that explored Victoria Land between 1900 and 1912, with a note on the significance of the geological specimens found with the bodies of Scott, Wilson and Bowers in 1912.

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Polar Record , Volume 21 , Issue 134 , May 1983 , pp. 451 - 457
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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