Antarctica

Antarctica, 1957

Portfolio/Series title: The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. CXIII, No. 3, September 1957

Material/technique: screen print

Credit line: T. R. Smith Map Collection, Anschutz Library, The University of Kansas Libraries

Accession number: EL2008.045

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"Climate Change at the Poles," Jan-2009, Kate Meyer, Jennifer Talbott, and Angela Watts
The launch of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in 1957 proved a monumental scientific effort dedicated to research in earth sciences that sustained the following two to three decades of scientists with invaluable data to analysis and interpret. In the midst of such a positive global endeavor to learn more about the planet, this map detailing Antarctic discoveries emphasizes above all else a sense of claimed territory and nationalistic ambition.