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Along with the exploiters came explorers, searching for nothing more than scientific knowledge and personal and national glory. In 1841 Britain's James Clark Ross became the first man to find his way through the sea ice and reach the mainland. The ultimate goal for the adventurers -- the South Pole -- was not reached until seven decades later, during the dramatic and ultimately tragic race between British explorer Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen. Relying on dogsleds, which proved to be more dependable than the breakdown- prone mechanical sleds used by Scott, Amundsen's party arrived triumphantly at the pole...
...fish from ice holes to study the unique organic antifreeze that keeps these sea dwellers alive. Volcanologists braved the knifelike winds and choking fumes atop Mount Erebus to learn what kinds of gases and particles Antarctica's largest volcano emits. At Williams Field, a runway on the Ross Ice Shelf, a multidisciplinary team prepared to launch a huge helium balloon. Its purpose: to follow circumpolar winds around the entire continent, gathering data on cosmic rays and solar flares and testing the behavior of high-density computer chips in the intense radiation of the upper atmosphere. And deep in the interior...
There is no certainty that commercially valuable deposits of minerals exist. Surface rocks contain traces of iron, titanium, low-grade gold, tin, molybdenum, coal, copper and zinc. Gaseous hydrocarbons, sometimes associated with oil, have been found in bottom samples taken from the Ross Sea. But in most cases, says geologist Robert Rutford, president of the University of Texas at Dallas, who did research in Antarctica for more than 20 years, "minerals are less than 1% of the total rock sample analyzed." Moreover, the vicious Antarctic climate would make exploration dangerous and expensive...
News Editors for This Issue: Ross G. Forman '90 Melissa R. Hart '91 Night Editors: Colin F. Boyle '90 Brian R. Hecht '92 Emily Mieras '90 Suzanne Petren Moritz '93 Tara A. Nayak '92 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Editorial Editor: Andrew J. Bates '90 Feature Editor Ross G. Forman '90 Sports Editor: Michael D. Stankiewicz '91 Photo Editor: Daniel H. Schumann '93 Jennifer L. Barro '92 Business Editor: Timothy B. Paydos '92 Copy Editor: David G. Zermeno...
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