Antarctica / prepared by the American Geographical Society for the National Academy of Sciences ; compiled and drawn by Wm. A Briesemeister and Douglas V Waugh
- Bib ID:
- 6896617
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- American Geographical Society of New York, cartographer, compiler
- Edition:
- Revised edition October 1958.
- Scale:
- Scale 1:6,000,000 at latitude 71°S ; stereographic projection (W 180°00ʹ--E 180°00ʹ/S 60°00'--S 90°00ʹ).
- Printer:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Reproduced and printed by A. Hoen and Co. Lith.
- Description:
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- New York : American Geographical Society, [1959]
- 1 map : colour ; 100 x 100 cm, on sheet 106 x 103 cm
- Partial contents:
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- Insets: Antarctica in relation to the other continents. Scale 1:152,000,000
- United States to Antarctica. Scale 1:116,000,000
- Mapping the Antarctic as of October, 1958. Scale approximately 1:36,000,000.
- Notes:
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- Map of Antarctica showing glaciers, ice shelves, mountains, lakes, ice thickness, rock surfaces, and crevasses.
- Relief indicated by hachures, form lines and spot heights. Depths shown by bathymetric tints, isolines and soundings.
- "United States National Committee, International Geophysical Year 1957-1958".
- "Names revised October 15, 1958".
- Includes list of year round bases in the Antarctic Peninsula area for Argentina, United Kingdom, Chile, USSR and United States.
- Includes legend.
- National Library of Australia's copy has handwritten annotations.
- National Library of Australia's copy acquired by arrangement with Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).
- Subject:
- Antarctica -- Maps
- Time Coverage:
- 1958
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright Information:
- Copyright 1959, by the National Academy of Sciences and the American Geographical Society
- Copyright:
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