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This account offers an accessible and informative look at advancing scientific discoveries in Antarctica, the last great unexplored continent. Reports by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) have been adapted for the nonspecialist, and cover such diverse topics as solar wind, plasma physics, radio research, ocean circulation and mixing, glaciation, climate history, weather phenomena, the survival of life forms at low temperature, and human impact on a pristine environment.Fifield, Richard is the author of 'International Research in the Antarctic' with ISBN 9780198542162 and ISBN 019854216X.
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