Antarctica: What Everyone Needs to Know
David Day
In this addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, David Day examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. For over a century following its discovery by European explorers in 1820, Antarctica played host to competing claims by rival nations vying for access to the frozen land's vast marine resources -- namely the skins and oils of seals and whales. Though the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 was meant to end this contention, countries have found other means of extending control over the land, with scientific bases establishing at least symbolic claims.
年:
2019
出版商:
Oxford University Press
語言:
english
頁數:
217
ISBN 10:
0190641320
ISBN 13:
9780190641320
文件:
EPUB, 1.62 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2019