Antarctica: Austral Soundscapes

• Main Authors: Austral Soundscapes, Douglas Quin
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Transantarctic Mountains; Grinten; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelves; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.3051; http://home.pon.net/quin/austral.pdf

The Antarctic Peninsula reached for Tierra del Fuego, swept into the Westerlies and Roaring Forties; ocean currents pulled archipelagos to South Africa. The plateau interior and the Transantarctic Mountains faded to white at the edges of the pages and thin blue lines traced the suggestion of glaciers and ice shelves. In other sections of the atlas, different images were used to convey information about diverse planetary resources including food, energy, and minerals. Each topic was presented with overarching authority, in a myriad of projections with both the Arctic and the Antarctic subject to various permutations. Goode's Interrupted Homolographic projection parcelled polar regions between projecting lobes. A series of Eckert Equal-Area images attenuated the earth into a neat oval track; Antarctica appeared as a smear on the inside lane of the home stretch. The physical map of the world was presented as a van der Grinten projection. Here, pinched poles gave Antarctica the