From Scotia to 'Operation Tabarin': developing British policy for Antarctica

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Dudeney, John R., Walton, David W.H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2012
• Subjects: Science Policy; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Argentina; Argentine; Laurie; Fid; Laurie Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/19764/; http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0032247411000520

The roots of a British Antarctic policy can be traced, paradoxically, back to the establishment of a meteorological station by the Scottish Antarctic Expedition in the South Orkneys, in 1903, and the indifference of the British Government to its almost immediate transfer to the Argentine Government....