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Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans

Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: An Heroic Failure
Review: Along with Scott's expedition, this at best can ber described as an heroic failure. For the want of an editor this Antarctic encyclopedia should be consigned to the nearest crevasse, but don't rely on this encyclopedia for the coordinates, because more than likely they would be wrong. Bernard Stonehouse should be regretting having his name associated with this ill-fated publishing adventure. At $ per volume an editor could have been employed to correct the more than numerous mistakes. A random examination of enteries for some sub-Antarctic isles reveal mistakes for every entry. Some of the maps are equivalent to the fanciful fabrication of medieavle cartographers - here be sea lions! The coloured map insert provides us with to entries for Davis station, one on the Ingrid Christensen Coast for Australia, and another near Scott Glacier with Australia and Russia as the proprieters. Moving on to Heard Island Station entry the coordinets given put the station some 15 miles to the east of it's actual location. The map for McDonald Islands is just plain fanciful the shape of McDonald Islands bares no resemblence to reality. Looking at the entry for Macquarie Island the map notes that the island is known as "Maquairi" Island. Hasselborough Bay has become "Hasselburg Bay." How many more errors? A much better buy would be a combined purchase of Trewby's Antarctica encyclopedia with Hince's The Antarctic Dictionary, at less than a quarter of the price of Stonehouse.


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