James Cook's scientific programme in the Southern Ocean, 1772–75

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Rubin, Morton J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1982
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Endeavour; Antarc*; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400004216; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400004216

Until long after all other regions of the world had been explored and populated by man, the high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere remained unknownand inviolate. Although a great southern continent had been postulated by theancient Greeks, and its existence firmly believed in during the 16th cent...