J.-B. Charcot; father of French polar research
Abstract Born in 1867 and trained as a doctor, Jean-Baptiste Charcot gave up a fashionable medical practice to become, in his mid-thirties, France's leading polar explorer. His two major expeditions to the peninsular sector of Antarctica and the Bellingshausen Sea (1903–05, 1908–10) resulted in...
Published in: | Polar Record |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1989
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400010780 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400010780 |