The International Polar Year in 2007

Anniversaries punctuate all our lives, providing the semicolons that cause us to pause and think again. Everyone has plenty of personal anniversaries but there are also cultural and institutional ones that we can use as an opportunity to remember but also as a platform to leap forward. How far have...

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Published in:Antarctic Science
Main Author: WALTON, DAVID
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2003
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description Anniversaries punctuate all our lives, providing the semicolons that cause us to pause and think again. Everyone has plenty of personal anniversaries but there are also cultural and institutional ones that we can use as an opportunity to remember but also as a platform to leap forward. How far have we come and where do we want to be in the future? The recent announcement of an International Polar Year (IPY) in 2007 is linked to the fiftieth anniversary of the International Geophysical Year, an event that proved to have such momentous consequences both for Antarctic science and for international politics.
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spelling crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0954102003001676 2025-05-04T14:12:03+00:00 The International Polar Year in 2007 WALTON, DAVID 2003 https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954102003001676 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102003001676 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Antarctic Science volume 15, issue 4, page 413-413 ISSN 0954-1020 1365-2079 journal-article 2003 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954102003001676 2025-04-08T13:05:34Z Anniversaries punctuate all our lives, providing the semicolons that cause us to pause and think again. Everyone has plenty of personal anniversaries but there are also cultural and institutional ones that we can use as an opportunity to remember but also as a platform to leap forward. How far have we come and where do we want to be in the future? The recent announcement of an International Polar Year (IPY) in 2007 is linked to the fiftieth anniversary of the International Geophysical Year, an event that proved to have such momentous consequences both for Antarctic science and for international politics. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Science International Polar Year IPY Cambridge University Press Antarctic Antarctic Science 15 4 413 413
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