The White Desert: The Official Account of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition |
Contents
Foreword by J M Wordie | 9 |
An International Expedition Comes into Being II | 11 |
A Hectic Prelude | 19 |
Copyright | |
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Advanced Base aircraft Alan Alan Reece Antarctic began Borgen breeze camp Captain Guttorm Charles Swithinbank coast course crate crevasses dark depot dogs driving snow east Ekström equipment expedition farther February flag floe Fred Fred Roots gale geologists glacier glaciological glaciologists Gösta Greenland ice front ice shelf inland ice January journey Kapp Norvegia Knalle light Liljequist load looked Maudheim Melleby meteorologists miles minus morning mountains night Nils Roer Norsel Norselbukta north-east Norway Norwegian nunatak Oslo Ove Wilson pack ice Peter Melleby polar Professor Sverdrup Pyramiden Quar Queen Maud Land radio ridge Robbie Robin rock Roer Rogstad Roots and Reece route Schytt seismic Selbukta ship skis sledging party Snarby south-east southward station Stig storm summer surface survey Svalbard Swedish Swithinbank temperature tent thick things Thorshøvdi tion took Valter Walford weasel weather Weddell Sea whole Wilson wind wintering party yards