Overview
- Provides comprehensive coverage of the story of Antarctica
- Expert team of authors are familiar with the sense and substance of the maps as they relate to Antarctica
- Addresses a broad audience: modern cartographer as well as historic map collector
- Unique maps that historically trace the ideas, discovery and exploration of Antarctica
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
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Reviews
From the book reviews:
“Australia-based authors Clancy (Univ. of Newcastle), Manning (Monash Univ.), and Brolsma (Australian Antarctic Division) have produced a remarkable archive of maps of Antarctica with extensive annotation. … Annotations to each map, or group of maps, introduce fascinating detail rarely assembled in one place. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers.” (J. D. Ives, Choice, Vol. 52 (6), February, 2015)
“The fascinating book is about the discovery and exploration of Antarctica. … is a great read as it provides a comprehensive coverage of the story of Antarctica. It addresses a broad audience from modern cartographers as well as historic map collectors.” (bergbuch.info, March, 2014)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
John Manning has had a long career from 1956 to 2004 in surveying, mapping and geodesy in Antarctica and remote areas of Australia. This includes appointments as head of the Antarctic mapping Section of the Division of national mapping and eventually head of the Topographic Mapping Division, as well as chairman or secretary of the SCAR working group on Geodesy and Geographic information over 30 years until 2002.
He has been closely involved in modern Australian mapping of the Antarctic since 1966.
He has published some 120 technical papers on mapping cartography and photogrammetry. He was a contributing author to the "Readers Digest book on Antarctica". He retired from Geoscience Australia in 2004 as Group Leader Geodesy.
Henk Brolsma has had a professional career in surveying and mapping for more than 30 years in different parts of the world. Since 1994 , he has held the position of Mapping officer at the Australian Antarctic Division. In that role he has been in charge of the production of more than a hundred scale maps (small, medium as well as large) of the Australian Antarctic territory in East Antarctica. This also includes a variety oftopographic, thematic, bathymetric and satellite mapping. From 1996, he has been fundamentally involved in the establishment of the Australian Antarctic Data Centre and the extended development of its relational data base aspects. This includes an increasing use of aerial photography and satellite remote sensing, such as the application of digital terrain models for ice cap depiction for aviation operations. Today much of his work is involved with the design and delivery of digital online mapping, integrated with selected information such as nomenclature and remotely sensed imagery. He has been an Australian representative in the Scientific Committee for Antarctic research (SCAR) working groups for more than 10 years and is currently the elected chairman of the Standing Committee on Geographic Infrastructure.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mapping Antarctica
Book Subtitle: A Five Hundred Year Record of Discovery
Authors: Robert Clancy, John Manning, Henk Brolsma
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4321-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4320-5Published: 16 December 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4321-2Published: 02 December 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 328
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 130 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Nature and Environment, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Climate Change, Historical Geology