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Online Resources

Live From Antarctica 2
http://www.passporttoknowledge.com/antarctica2/main/o_index.html
A learner's guide to the beauty and wonder of the world's last continent, everything from continental drift and weather to ice movements and penguins.

Bird on a rock

Antarctic Journal
http://www.antarctica2000.net/frameset.html
A wildlife sound recordist shares his Antarctic experience. Hear glaciers groan and sea ice crack.

National Ice Center
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/
Keep track of seagoing ice with the National Ice Center.


Print Resources

Alexander, Caroline. THE ENDURANCE: SHACKLETON'S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. New York: Knopf, 1998.

Cowcher, Helen. ANTARCTICA. New York: Milet Ltd., 1997.

Crossley, Louise. EXPLORE ANTARCTICA. London: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Heacox, Kim. ANTARCTICA: THE LAST CONTINENT (National Geographic Destinations). Washington: National Geographic Society, 1999.

Monteath, Colin. ANTARCTICA: BEYOND THE SOUTHERN OCEAN. New York: Barrons Educational Series, 1997.

Rubin, Jeff. LONELY PLANET ANTARCTICA: A SURVIVAL KIT (1st Ed). Melbourne: Lonely Planet, 1996.

Soper, Tony. ANTARCTICA: A GUIDE TO THE WILDLIFE. New York: Bradt, 1997.

Wheeler, Sara. TERRA INCOGNITA: TRAVELS IN ANTARCTICA. New York: Random House, 1998.

Worsley, Frank Arthur. ENDURANCE: AN EPIC OF POLAR ADVENTURE. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000.

 

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