Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Continental Shelf, and a New Arctic Continent
Between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, roughly two hundred expeditions set out for what is now the Canadian Arctic, from its boundary with Alaska in the West, along the northern shore of Canada and including the Arctic archipelago between that shore and the pole, to the marine boundary...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s000708740002478x 2024-03-03T08:39:32+00:00 Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Continental Shelf, and a New Arctic Continent Levere, Trevor H. 1988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000708740002478x https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S000708740002478X en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms The British Journal for the History of Science volume 21, issue 2, page 233-247 ISSN 0007-0874 1474-001X History and Philosophy of Science History journal-article 1988 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s000708740002478x 2024-02-08T08:25:36Z Between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, roughly two hundred expeditions set out for what is now the Canadian Arctic, from its boundary with Alaska in the West, along the northern shore of Canada and including the Arctic archipelago between that shore and the pole, to the marine boundary with Danish Greenland in the East. For more than half a century, these expeditions were little concerned with Canada as a political entity; after all, it had not yet been truly created as a nation. Besides, science was a major part of the mandate of many of the Arctic expeditions, almost half of which achieved significant scientific results; and science, while partly a national activity, was also a trans-national one. John Franklin's last expedition, made famous by disaster, had, typically, been largely motivated by scientific curiosity; the resolution of geomagnetic questions loomed large in Franklin's instructions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Archipelago Arctic Archipelago Arctic Greenland Alaska Cambridge University Press Arctic Canada Greenland Stefansson ENVELOPE(-62.417,-62.417,-69.467,-69.467) The British Journal for the History of Science 21 2 233 247 |
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Between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, roughly two hundred expeditions set out for what is now the Canadian Arctic, from its boundary with Alaska in the West, along the northern shore of Canada and including the Arctic archipelago between that shore and the pole, to the marine boundary with Danish Greenland in the East. For more than half a century, these expeditions were little concerned with Canada as a political entity; after all, it had not yet been truly created as a nation. Besides, science was a major part of the mandate of many of the Arctic expeditions, almost half of which achieved significant scientific results; and science, while partly a national activity, was also a trans-national one. John Franklin's last expedition, made famous by disaster, had, typically, been largely motivated by scientific curiosity; the resolution of geomagnetic questions loomed large in Franklin's instructions. |
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Continental Shelf, and a New Arctic Continent |
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Continental Shelf, and a New Arctic Continent |
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Continental Shelf, and a New Arctic Continent |
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vilhjalmur stefansson, the continental shelf, and a new arctic continent |
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