Book Review: The Dawning of Antarctica: Through Exploration to Occupation

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Author: Allison, I
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Univ Press 2022
• Subjects: History; Heritage and Archaeology; Historical studies; Historical studies not elsewhere classified; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102022000311; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/154901

This extremely comprehensive record of the human history of the exploration of Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic Southern Ocean covers pre-discovery speculation, early circumnavigations in the Southern Hemisphere, commercial sealing and whaling in the Southern Ocean, the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration, the Inter-war Year expeditions and the pre-modern era leading to the 19571958 International Geophysical Year (IGY). This history ends after the IGY, when the Antarctic had been basically explored and was occupied by permanent stations.