01620 a2200157 4500 25720 25720 9780190641313 919.89 DAY-A Day, David Antarctica : what everyone needs to know Oxford University Press 2019 New York x, 196p. Include Index Part of the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, David Day's book on Antarctica examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. Antarctica was first discovered by European explorers in 1820, and for over a century following this, countries competed for the frozen land's vast marine resources―namely, the skins and oil of seals and whales. Soon the entire territory played host to competing claims by rival nations. The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 was meant to end this contention, but countries have found other means of extending control over the land, with scientific bases establishing at least symbolic claims. Exploration and drilling by the United States, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, and others has led to discoveries about the world's climate in centuries past―and in the process intimations of its alarming future.Delving into the history of the continent, Antarctic wildlife, arguments over governance, underwater mountain rangers, and the continent's use in predicting coming global change, Day's work sheds new light on a territory that, despite being the coldest, driest, and windiest continent in the world, will continue to be the object of intense speculation and competition. History 1949 Antarctica ddc BK 0 0 0 0 NASSDOC NASSDOC 2019-12-26 7 580.35 0 919.89 DAY-A 50567 2019-12-27 00:00:00 795.00 2019-12-26 BK