"Who wouldn't come down here to see such sights as these!": The Antarctic environment and the diary of Ritchie Simmers

Ritchie Simmers began his diary entry for Thursday 29 January 1931: ‘Were I truly the realist which … I [recently] claimed to be I would merely enter for today “Gale, high sea” and leave it at that but the conditions have been bad enough to deserve more comment than that’.1 Simmers was the meteorolo...

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Main Author: Moffatt-Wood, Alex
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14175