Antarctica Bibliography

ANTARCTICA BIBLIOGRAPHY

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WEB SITES

Antarctica Online:  Australian Antarctic Division

http://www.antdiv.gov.au/

Lead Agency for Australia's Antarctic program. Includes research aims and applications.

 

Antarctic Treaty Papers

http://www.polarlaw.org/index.html

Explore the natural history, exploration history, and political history of Antarctica.

 

CIA World Factbook -- Antarctica

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Statistical information about the area.  To access the information, click on “Antarctica” on the left hand side of the screen.

 

Gateway Antarctica:  Centre for Antarctic Studies and Research

http://www.anta.canterbury.ac.nz/

 

NASA's Antarctica

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/

Excellent site for teachers, students and parents

 

Norbert Wu Antarctica

http://www.norbertwu.com/

Includes examples of Norbert Wu's photographic documentation of Antarctica's marine and land life.

 

Virtual Antarctica

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~kpt/terraquest/va/

Lots of information available about many aspects of Antarctica.

 

Virtual Tour: Antarctica

http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/vtour/

What would it be like if you were actually travelling to Antarctica?  Take this virtual, including images, tour and find out.

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BOOKS

Antarctic Science Advisory Committee. Working Group on Research Involving Animals in the Antarctic.  Report of the ASAC Working Group on Research Involving Animals in the Antarctic.  Canberra: Australian Gov't Pub. Service, c1988.  Main REF HV4830.9 .A86 1988.

 

Austin, Oliver Luther.  Antarctic Bird Studies. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union of the National Academy of Sciences--National Research Council, 1968.  M&O QL695.2 .A9.

 

Chester, Sharon.  Antarctic Birds and Seals: A Pocket Guide. San Mateo, CA: Wandering Albatross, 1993.  M&O QL695.2 .C48 1993.

 

Crossley, Louise.  Explore Antarctica. New York: Cambridge University Press; Melbourne, Australia: Australian Antarctic Foundation: Australian Surveying & Land Information Group, 1995.  Main G863 .C76 1995.

 

Current Antarctic Literature.  Washington, D.C.: Cold Regions Bibliography Project, Science and Technology Division, Library of Congress, 1972.  Main REF Z6005 .P7 C8 G860.

 

Cushman Murphy, Robert.  Oceanic Birds of  South America: A Study of Species of the Related Coasts and Seas, Including the American Quadrant of Antarctica Based Upon the Brewster-Sanford Collection in the American Museum of Natural History.  New York: American Museum of Natural History, c1936.  M&O REF QL689 .A1 M88 1936.

 

DeWitt, Hugh H. Coastal and Deep-Water Benthic Fishes of the Antarctic. New York: American Geographical Society, 1971. Ichthy Folio QL637.2 .D48 1971.

 

Gorman, James. Ocean Enough and Time: Discovering the Waters around Antarctica. New York: HarperCollins, c1995.  Main GC461 .G68 1995.

 

Harrowfield, David L. Sledging into History. Northcote, Auckland, New Zealand: Macmillan, 1981. Main G870 .H37 1981.

 

Headland, Robert.  Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events.  Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.  Main REF G860 .H36 1989.

 

Hooker, Joseph Dalton.  The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843, Under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross.  London, England: Reeves Brothers, 1844-60.  Bot Folio QK5 .E74.

 

Kennett, James P. and Detlef Warnke, eds. The Antarctic Paleoenvironment: A Perspective on Global Change. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union, 1992-1993.  Main QE501.4 .P3 A64 1992.

 

Llano, George A., ed.  Antarctic Terrestrial Biology. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union, c1972.  Main Q115 .A45 v.20.

 

Marchant, S. and P.J. Higgins. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctica Birds.  Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press, 1990-.  M&O QL693 .H37 1990.

 

National Science Foundation.  Facts about the U.S. Antarctic Program. Washington, D.C.:  Division of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 1990.  Main REF G877 .F32 1990.

 

Naveen, Ron. Waiting to Fly: My Escapades with the Penguins of Antarctica. New York: Quill, 2000. Pub QL696 .S473 N38 2000.

 

Peña, Martín Rodolfo de la and Maurice Rumboll. Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [2001]. M&O QL689 .A1 P46 2001.

 

Rothblum, Esther et.al, eds.  Women in the Antarctic. New York: Harrington Park Press, c1998.  Main G860 .W66 1998.

 

Satellite Image Map of Antarctica. Reston, VA: US Geological Survey; Denver, CO: Information Services [distributor], 2000. Maps I-2560.

 

Stonehouse, Bernard.  Animals of the Antarctic: The Ecology of the Far South.  New York: Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1972.  Main REF QL106 .S76 1972.

 

A Strategy for Antarctic Conservation. Gland, Switzerland:  IUCN--The World Conservation Union, 1991.  Main QH77 .A6 S76 1991.

 

Timberlake, Lloyd, ed.  Conservation and Development of Antarctic Ecosystems. Gland, Switzerland: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, c1984.  Main QH77 .A6 C66 1984.

 

Van Mieghem, J. and P. Van Oye, eds.  Biogeography and Ecology in Antarctica.  The Hague: W. Junk, 1965.  Main  QH84.2 .B56 1965.

 

Watson, George E. et al.  Birds of the Antarctic and Subantarctic.  New York: American Geographical Society, 1971.  M&O QL695.2 .W38 1971.

 

Wilson, Edward.  Edward Wilson's Birds of the Antarctic.  New York: Humanities Press, c1968.  M&O QL695 .W55 1968.

 

Young, Euan. Skua and Penguin: Predator and Prey. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. M&O QL696 .C488 Y68 1994.

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JOURNALS

Ainley, David.  The Marine Ecology of the Birds in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.  In Ornithological Monographs. Washington, D.C.: The American Ornithologists' Union, 1984.  M&O Serials.

 

ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions). Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Antarctic Division, Dept. of External Affairs, 1950-.  Main Serials G845 .A8.

 

Antarctic Journal of the United States.  Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation, Division of Polar Programs: Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., distributor, 1966-.  Main Serials G845 .A57.

 

Antarctic Science. Oxford, England: Blackwell Scientific Publications, c1989-.  Main Serials Q127 .A48 A58.

 

Arntz, W.E and C.Rios, eds.  Magella-Antarctica: Ecosystems that Drifted Apart. In Scientia Marina.  Barcelona, Spain: Institut de Ciències del Mar, 1999.  Main Serials SH285 .I55 v.63 suppl.1.

 

Dartnall, H. J. G. and E. D. Hollowday. Antarctic Rotifers. Cambridge, England: British Antarctic Survey; [Swindon]: Natural Environment Research Council, 1985. Main Serials QH84.2 .B7 no.100.

 

Dawson, Elliot W.  Catalogue of Type and Figured Specimens in the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute.  Wellington, New Zealand: Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1979.  Main Serials 590.74 D272 C357 1979.

 

Ensor, Paul H.  The Breeding Status of Adélie Penguins and other Birds on the Coast of George V Land, Antarctica.  In Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions.  Kingston, Tasmania: Antarctic Division, Department of Science, 1987. Main Serials G845 .A56 no.50.

 

The Fauna of the Ross Sea.  In New England Oceanographic Institute Memoir.  Wellington, New Zealand: R.E. Owen, gov't printer, 1961-71.  Main Serials GC1 .W39 no 18 & 21.

 

Green, K.  Breeding Distribution and Abundance of Surface-Nesting Petrels in the Rauer Islands, East Antarctica.  In Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions.  Kingston, Tasmania: Antarctiv Division, Dept. of Science, 1986.  Main Serials G845 .A56 no. 35.

 

Hadley, Jarvis B., ed.  Geology and Paleontology of the Antarctic.  In Antarctic Research Series.  Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1965.  Main Serials Q115 .A45 v.6.

 

Harrington, Richard. Antarctic. Anchorage, AK: Alaska Northwest Pub. Co., 1976. Main Serials F901 .A42 v.3:3.

 

Lee, Milton O. et al., eds.  Biology of the Antarctic Seas.  In Antarctic Research Series.  Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1964-.  Main Serials Q115 .A45 v.1, etc.

 

Marvin, Ursula B. and Glenn J. MacPherson, eds.  Field and Laboratory Investigations of Antarctic Meteorites Collected by United States Expeditions, 1985-1987.  In Smithsonian Contributions to Earth Sciences.  Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.  Main Serials QE1 .S6 no. 30.

 

Polar Geoscience. Tokyo: National Institute of Polar Research, [1998-]. Main Serials QE350 .N57.

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CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Bonners, Susan.  A Penguin Year.  New York: Dell, c1981.  Main Juv QL696 .S473 B66 1989.

 

Bramwell, Martyn.  Polar Exploration: Journeys to the Arctic and the Antarctic.  New York: DK Publishing, 1998.  Main Juv G584 .B7 1988.

 

Cowcher, Helen.  Antarctica.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.  Biodiv Juv G863 .C69 1990.

 

Johnson, Sylvia A.  Penguins.  Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Co., c1981.  Main Juv QL696 .S473 J53 1981.

 

Miller, Patricia K.  At Home on the Ice.  New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, c1963.  Main Juv QL696 .S473 M54 1963.

 

Poncet, Sally. Antarctic Encounter: Destination South Georgia. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1995. Biodiv Juv QH84.2 .P65 1995.

 

Pringle, Laurence P. Antarctica: The Last Unspoiled Continent. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1992.  Main Juv G863 .P75 1992

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VIDEO

Icebird.  Golden Bay, New Zealand: Wild South, c1987.  Biodiv QL696 .S473 I25 1987.

 

The Longest Night.  Golden Bay, New Zealand: Wild South, 1992.  Biodiv Q180.6 .A62 L66 1992.

 

Solid Water, Liquid Rock.  Golden Bay, New Zealand: Wild South, c1993.  Biodiv QH84.2 .S64 1993.

 

Under the Ice.   Golden Bay, New Zealand: Wild South, 1989.  Biodiv QL126.5 .U55 1989.

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