The Last of the Warmth

• Main Authors: Zalasiewicz, Jan, Williams, Mark
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; Argentina; Canada; Greenland; Norway; Ushuaia; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Kamchatka; Prudhoe Bay; Tundra; Alaska; Siberia; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199593576.003.0012

The Pan-American Highway rises in the far north of the Americas at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska and, except for a small gap in Panama, runs the entire length of the two American continents to terminate at Ushuaia in southernmost Argentina. Along its way it travels nearly 50,000 kilometres, from the polar lan...