From Scotiato ‘Operation Tabarin’: developing British policy for Antarctica

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Dudeney, John R., Walton, David W.H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2011
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Laurie Island; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247411000520; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247411000520

ABSTRACT The roots of a British Antarctic policy can be traced, paradoxically, back to the establishment of a meteorological station by the Scottish Antarctic Expedition in the South Orkneys, in 1903, and the indifference of the British Government to its almost immediate transfer to the Argentine Go...