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Mapping Antarctica: A Five Hundred Year Record of Discovery de Robert Clancy

Mapping Antarctica: A Five Hundred Year Record of Discovery: Springer Praxis Books

Autor Robert Clancy, John Manning, Henk Brolsma
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 dec 2013
Everyone likes maps and maps are always used to illustrate the many books on the Antarctic. Here the focus is reversed with contemporary maps telling the story – one that should be attractive to the widest audience as it is a unique approach complimenting what has gone before and providing something different for all interested in Antarctica.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789400743205
ISBN-10: 9400743203
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: XXI, 328 p. 163 illus., 130 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 168 x 240 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Ediția:2014
Editura: SPRINGER NETHERLANDS
Colecția Springer
Seria Springer Praxis Books

Locul publicării:Dordrecht, Netherlands

Public țintă

Research

Cuprins

Introduction.- The Concept: From Ptolemy to Cook.-
Arctic and Antarctic regions are not Poles apart.- The Reality: Cook to the International Geographical Congress.- The Heroic Age: Heroes, Legends and Land.- Wings over the Continent: From Wilkins to War.- A Second World War and a New Order of Business.- Antarctica Comes of Age: Windows of the World (1960–2000).- Post–2000: A new concept of mapping.- Tourism: A different explorer.

Recenzii

From the book reviews:
“Australia-based authors Clancy (Univ. of Newcastle), Manning (Monash Univ.), and Brolsma (Australian Antarctic Division) have produced a remarkable archive of maps of Antarctica with extensive annotation. … Annotations to each map, or group of maps, introduce fascinating detail rarely assembled in one place. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers.” (J. D. Ives, Choice, Vol. 52 (6), February, 2015)
“The fascinating book is about the discovery and exploration of Antarctica. … is a great read as it provides a comprehensive coverage of the story of Antarctica. It addresses a broad audience from modern cartographers as well as historic map collectors.” (bergbuch.info, March, 2014)

Notă biografică

Robert Clancy is a Member of Order of Australia (for Immunology as well as Historic Cartology).  He has made about 6 trips to Antarctica, as both a research scientist and as a tour guide (to both the Antarctic Peninsula and Australian bases). He has been collecting maps of Antarctica since 1972, and has written numerous articles on historic cartography of Australia and Antarctica, given many talks on similar topics and curated four exhibitions of maps related to these topics. He has written three books on maps (‘So Come They South’, ‘The Mapping of Terra Australis’, and ‘Shaping Australia: 1850-1950’). He is an International Secretary of the International Map Collectors Society (IMCoS) and has received the Inaugural Innovation Award at the University of Newcastle.

John Manning has had a long career from 1956 to 2004 in surveying, mapping and geodesy in Antarctica and remote areas of Australia. This includes appointments as head of the Antarctic mapping Section of the Division of national mapping and eventually head of the Topographic Mapping Division, as well as chairman or secretary of the SCAR working group on Geodesy and Geographic information over 30 years until 2002.
He has been closely involved in modern Australian mapping of the Antarctic since 1966.
He has published some 120 technical papers on mapping cartography and photogrammetry. He was a contributing author to the "Readers Digest book on Antarctica". He retired from Geoscience Australia in 2004 as Group Leader Geodesy.

Henk Brolsma has had a professional career in surveying and mapping for more than 30 years in different parts of the world. Since 1994 , he has held the position of Mapping officer at the Australian Antarctic Division. In that role he has been in charge of the production of more than a hundred scale maps (small, medium as well as large) of the Australian Antarctic territory in East Antarctica. This also includes a variety oftopographic, thematic, bathymetric and satellite mapping. From 1996, he has been fundamentally involved in the establishment of the Australian Antarctic Data Centre and the extended development of its relational data base aspects. This includes an increasing use of aerial photography and satellite remote sensing, such as the application of digital terrain models for ice cap depiction for aviation operations. Today much of his work is involved with the design and delivery of digital online mapping, integrated with selected information such as nomenclature and remotely sensed imagery. He has been an Australian representative in the Scientific Committee for Antarctic research (SCAR) working groups for more than 10 years and is currently the elected chairman of the Standing Committee on Geographic Infrastructure.

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Everyone likes maps and maps are always used to illustrate the many books on the Antarctic. Here the focus is reversed with contemporary maps telling the story – one that should be attractive to the widest audience as it is a unique approach complimenting what has gone before and providing something different for all interested in Antarctica.

Caracteristici

Provides comprehensive coverage of the story of Antarctica Expert team of authors are familiar with the sense and substance of the maps as they relate to Antarctica Addresses a broad audience: modern cartographer as well as historic map collector Unique maps that historically trace the ideas, discovery and exploration of Antarctica Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras