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Plates 5 and 23 courtesy of Scott Polar Research Institute Archives. Maps, figures, and plates from Robert Scott, The Voyage of the “Discovery” (New York, 1905), Roald Amundsen, The South Pole (New York, 1922), and James Ross, A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions (London, 1847), courtesy of the University of Georgia Libraries.
Maps, figures, and plates from Ernest Shackleton, The Heart of the Antarctic (Philadelphia, 1909), and Apsley Cherry-Gerrard, The Worst Journey in the World (New York, 1922), courtesy of UCLA Libraries. Maps, figures, and plates from R. F. Scott, Scott’s Last Expedition (New York, 1913), courtesy of Pepperdine University Libraries.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Larson, Edward J. (Edward John)
An empire of ice : Scott, Shackleton, and the heroic age of Antarctic science / Edward J. Larson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-300-15408-5 (clothbound : alk. paper) 1. Antarctica—Discovery and exploration—British. 2. Scientific expeditions—Antarctica—History—20th century. 3. Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868–1912. 4. Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874–1922. I. Title.
G872.B8L37 2011
919.8′9—dc22
2010044396

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