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Down at the bottom of the world lies the last unexplored continent on earth—Antarctica. It supports no human life. It is almost completely covered with ice and snow. It is unbelievably cold. Yet today scientists, engineers, technicians, and explorers from eleven different nations are discovering in Antarctica new facts about our world.
As a member of the U. S. Navy's Antarctic expedition of 1946-1947, Captain Icenhower writes with authority of the great adventure now taking place on the frozen continent. He describes scientists and explorers at work during the short Antarctic summer and the long winter months when the sun never shines. Here are the strange and fascinating animals that live in the Antarctic, the terrible storms, the treacherous ice pack, the whaling fleets, the early explorers who risked their lives and died to bring us knowledge of the land.
—from the dust jacket
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