Water Project

• Main Author: Wood, Ann
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Antarctic; Rodriguez; Shackleton; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14243

The difficulties in obtaining drinking water for humans in Antarctica are explored and methods used in the past, present and future described. Melting of snow in the Heroic Age required large investments in fuel and time. Drinking Of iced water rather than boiled 'Miter requires only half as mu...