Cold colonies: Antarctic spatialities at mawson and McMurdo stations

• Main Authors: Collis, C, Stevens, Q
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD 2007
• Subjects: Antarctic; Base McMurdo; Endeavour; Horseshoe Harbor; Mawson Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10790/

In 1954, a small team of Australian men landed at Horseshoe Harbor and began constructing Mawson Station: the permanent colonization of Antarctica was initiated. Two years later, Americans began the construction of their major Antarctic base, McMurdo. Although Antarctica is routinely represented as...