Introductory remarks

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1977
• Subjects: Antarctic; Argentina; South Orkney Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1977.0067; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.1977.0067

It is now only 80 years since man first set foot on the Antarctic Continent. Thereafter there were sporadic expeditions from various nations, which were mainly exploratory in the geographical sense although scientific studies were increasingly included. Even so, the area was so vast (13.5 x 10 6 km...