The mineral prospecting expeditions to the South Atlantic islands and Antarctic Peninsula region made by the Scottish geologist David Ferguson, 1912-1914

• Published in: Scottish Journal of Geology
• Main Authors: Stone, P., Faithfull, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society Publishing House 2013
• Subjects: DU Oceania (South Seas); GC Oceanography; QE Geology; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Ferguson; Leith; Salvesen; South Shetland Islands; Tyrrell; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/82812/

David Ferguson’s mineral prospecting expeditions to South Georgia (1912), the Falkland Islands and the South Shetland Islands (1913–1914), on behalf of the Christian Salvesen whaling company of Leith and now largely forgotten, were early examples of commercially motivated terrestrial exploration in...