The Mummified Seals of the Dry Valleys : A literature review

• Main Author: Balham, David
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: University of Canterbury 2008
• Subjects: Antarctic; Ross Sea; Victoria Land; McMurdo Sound; Weddell; McMurdo Ice Shelf; Bonney; Stirling; Lake Bonney; Antarc*; Antarctica; Crabeater Seals; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/13934

By the accounts of most who visit them the Dry Valleys of southern Victoria Land, on the shores of the Ross Sea, exert a strange fascination. Left literally high and dry by receding glaciers, these “oases in the ice” (Clarke) are starkly beautiful. They are of unusual scientific interest too: stripp...