Antarctic place-names
Throughout history ‘explorers’ from advanced countries have named place they have ‘discovered’ in lands occupied by native people from time immemorial, with the result that many local place-names have been disregarded and their history forgotten. Antarctica, however, is the one great land region on...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0954102089000441 2024-03-03T08:38:12+00:00 Antarctic place-names Hattersley-Smith, G. 1989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102089000441 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102089000441 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Antarctic Science volume 1, issue 4, page 299-299 ISSN 0954-1020 1365-2079 Geology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography journal-article 1989 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954102089000441 2024-02-08T08:48:33Z Throughout history ‘explorers’ from advanced countries have named place they have ‘discovered’ in lands occupied by native people from time immemorial, with the result that many local place-names have been disregarded and their history forgotten. Antarctica, however, is the one great land region on Earth that was truly ‘discovered’ when the South Shetland Islands were sighted in 1819, so that the place-names that gradually evolved in later exploration enshrine all the history of human endeavour on the continent. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Science Antarctica South Shetland Islands Cambridge University Press Antarctic South Shetland Islands Endeavour ENVELOPE(162.000,162.000,-76.550,-76.550) Antarctic Science 1 4 299 299 |
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Throughout history ‘explorers’ from advanced countries have named place they have ‘discovered’ in lands occupied by native people from time immemorial, with the result that many local place-names have been disregarded and their history forgotten. Antarctica, however, is the one great land region on Earth that was truly ‘discovered’ when the South Shetland Islands were sighted in 1819, so that the place-names that gradually evolved in later exploration enshrine all the history of human endeavour on the continent. |
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