Antarctica, one continent or two?
- 1 January 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Polar Record
- Vol. 10 (67) , 335-348
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400051457
Abstract
In outline, the Antarctic continent crudely resembles a pear. It is indented on two sides by arms of the ocean, the Ross and Weddell Seas. These indentations are even greater than an outline map would suggest, for the seas extend far toward the interior of the continent beneath the world's two largest floating ice shelves, bearing the names of their respective discoverers, the English sea captain, Ross, and the German explorer, Filchner.Keywords
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- Structure of West AntarcticaScience, 1960
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- The names “East Antarctica” and “West Antarctica”Polar Record, 1959