SH09 ANTARCTIC MEDICINE

• Published in: ANZ Journal of Surgery
• Main Author: Sharp, P. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2007
• Subjects: Antarctic; Shackleton; Terra Australis; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-2197.2007.04130_9.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1445-2197.2007.04130_9.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1445-2197.2007.04130_9.x

From the earliest classical cartographers, belief in the existence of a ‘Terra Australis’ was widespread. There had to be a great southern land to balance the geography of the world. Inexorable plate tectonics may have separated Australia and Antarctica 45 million years ago but it was only within th...