Bird Island in Antarctic Waters
Few maps show the location of Bird Island -- a lonely outcrop in the South Georgia group where Antarctic waters push against the Atlantic east of Cape Horn. Its forbidding flanks invite few human visitors. But for those who reach its shores there are rich.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1980.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface and Acknowledgments; Bird Island Species; Table of Contents; South with the Fids; The Tussock Isles; Lönnberg House: The First Night; Tussock, Wildlife, and Wind; Blue Petrels; The Monarchs of Bird Island; Saturday Night at Lönnberg House; Scavenging Tussock Ducks; Stinkers; Blue-Eyed Shags; Farewell Point; Skuas; Last Impressions; Selected Bibliography; Index.