Geological investigations in the Falkland Islands Dependencies before 1940

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Adie, Raymond J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1957
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527005/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400049883

From the time of its discovery until the latter years of the nineteenth century Antarctica remained a terra incognita to the geologist, but in the early years of this century the Falkland Islands Dependencies attracted some academic interest, particularly from geologists. Undoubtedly this was mainly due to the fact that the Dependencies occupy one of the more accessible parts of the Antarctic continent and also bear a close geological relationship to South America.