British contributions to Antarctic exploration, 1891-1900

• Other Authors: Baughman, Timothy H., Florida State University
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1990
• Subjects: History; European; Antarctic; Borchgrevink; De Gerlache; Gerlache; Antarc*; Scott Polar Research Institute
• Online Access: https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A78230/datastream/TN/view/British%20contributions%20to%20Antarctic%20exploration,%201891-1900.jpg

Antarctic history before 1900 has received scant attention from historians. Yet in the decade from 1891 to 1900 exploration revealed many scientific mysteries of the continent. Expeditions in the last decade of the nineteenth century produced important discoveries in biology, geology, geography, ter...