Drift Station: Arctic Outposts of Superpower Science

by WilliamF.Althoff (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $27.61

  Closed to conventional passage, the Arctic Ocean and peripheral seas have nevertheless known European explorers since the sixteenth century. Systematic observation, however, dates only from the last years of the nineteenth century, with the epic drift of Fridtjof Nansen's ice ship Fram (1893-1896), the first scientific expedition of the modern era.