Download or read book The Ross Dependency written by F.M. Auburn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1867 the United States purchased Alaska from Russia for the sum of 7,200,000 dollars. At the time the Americans did not under stand why money was being spent on buying a desert. A hundred years later one of the largest oilfields in the world was discovered there at Prudhoe Bay. There seems little doubt that large mineral resources will be found and exploited in the Canadian Arctic. In Greenland min ing is now being planned on a large scale, under conditions comparable to those of the Antarctic. No economically exploitable deposits of minerals have been found in Antarctica, but there is no doubt that large deposits exist. Whether the progress of technology will enable such deposits to be located and economically mined is not clear. Experts confidently state that at present this is not feasible. Forty years ago an expert asserted that during our geological period there would be no transit of the Northwest Passage by ship. The voyage was accomplished in 1969 by a large commercial tanker. Economic resources, and nothing else should be the reason for New Zealand activities in the Ross Dependency. Other reasons have been advanced. One is scientific research. Yet this could be done far more cheaply by supplying funds to existing research projects in New Antarctic budget is spent on logistics and Zealand for much of our support rather than research itself. Just keeping alive in Antarctica is an expensive business.

Download or read book History of the Ross Dependency written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ross Dependency in Pictures written by L. B. Quartermain and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictures showing New Zealand's Ross Dependency, and what it is like to live there.

Download or read book The Ross Dependency in Pictures written by Leslie B. Quartermain and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ross Dependency written by Dépendance de Ross and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 3rd Annual Report of the Ross Dependency Research Committee written by Ross Dependency Research Committee and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How Strong is New Zealand s Claim to the Ross Dependency written by Auckland District Law Society. Public Issues Committee and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Wise Adventure written by Malcolm Templeton and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how New Zealand's attitude to its wedge-shaped slice of Antarctica moved gradually over forty years from one of near neglect to one of active involvement in the negotiation of an international regime designed to protect the southernmost continent from political rivalries and potential damage to the fragile environment.

Download or read book The Ross Dependency Antarctica written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book First annual report of the Ross Dependency Research Committee 1959 written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Third Annual Report of the Ross Dependency Research Committee written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book South to the Pole written by L. B. Quartermain and published by London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rotatoria of the Ross Dependency written by C. R. Russell and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geological Evolution of Antarctica written by Michael Robert Alexander Thomson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-05-16 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the tectonic evolution of the Antarctic crust and the palaeoenvironmental evolution of Antarctica since the Late Mesozoic.

Download or read book Soils of the Ross Dependency Antarctica A preliminary note written by J.D. McCRAW and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand and the Ross Dependency Antarctica written by Evan Graham Turbott and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Antarctica written by David Day and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 1794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries it was suspected that there must be an undiscovered continent in the southern hemisphere. But explorers failed to find one. On his second voyage to the Pacific, Captain Cook sailed further south than any of his rivals but still failed to sight land. It was not until 1820 that the continent's frozen coast was finally sighted. Territorial rivalry intensified in the 1840s when British, American, and French expeditions sailed south to chart further portions of the continent that had come to be called Antarctica. For the nearly two centuries since, the race to claim exclusive possession of Antarctica has gripped the imagination of the world. Antarctica: A Biography is the first ever major international history of this forbidding continent - from the eighteenth century voyages of discovery to the fierce rivalries of today, as governments, scientists, environmentalists, and oil companies compete for control. On one level it is the story of explorers battling the elements in the most hostile place on earth as they strive for personal triumph, commercial gain, and national glory. On a deeper level, it is the story of nations seeking to incorporate the Antarctic into their own national stories - and to claim its frozen wastes as their own.