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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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The British Journal for the History of Science
Main Author: Levere, Trevor H.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1988
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000708740002478x
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S000708740002478X