The Land Beneath the Ice : : The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica / / David J. Drewry.
A wondrous story of scientific endeavor—probing the great ice sheets of AntarcticaFrom the moment explorers set foot on the ice of Antarctica in the early nineteenth century, they desired to learn what lay beneath. David Drewry provides an insider’s account of the ambitious and often hazardous radar...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The Antarctic Ice Sheet Puzzle
- 2. Sounding through the Ice
- 3. The Advent of Radio-Echo Sounding
- 4. Flight into the Unknown: Long-Range Antarctic Campaigns Commence
- 5. The Second Antarctic Season 1969–70: A Task for Hercules
- 6. Review and New Plans
- 7. The Continental Survey Begins: A Land Emerges
- 8. New Impetus
- 9. 1974–75: Radio-Echo Sounding Comes of Age
- 10. Data, Research, and Politics
- 11. Changing Planes
- 12. The Final Season, 1978–79
- 13. The Axe Falls
- 14. The Antarctic Folio
- 15. The Last Push
- 16. The Aftermath
- 17. Reflections
- Appendix 1 DISPLAY AND RECORDING OF RES DATA
- Appendix 2 SPRI RESEARCH STUDENTS IN THE RADIO-ECHO SOUNDING PROGRAMME
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Index