Contains an account (by the present director) of the origin of the Institute as a center for maintaining continuity of research in techniques of polar life and travel; its founding in 1925 with the University of Cambridge, with endowment from the Memorial Trust of Captain Scott. Its subsequent history, services and facilities are described, the building occupied in 1934, the collection of polar equipment, exhibits, extensive library, publication of the Polar record
Five expeditions are described: those of Binney 1923 and 1924, Glen 1935-36, and Hartog 1949 (in whi...
The British Antarctic Expedition (BAE) of 1910-1913 will be remembered for the heroic, ill-fated exp...
Dr. Cameron joined the Arctic Institute of North America in 1956 to participate in IGY-related activ...
The Polar community has suffered a great loss in the death in November 1965 of Frank Debenham. Deben...
In 1901, Commander Robert Falcon Scott lead a small group of men to the Antarctica in what is now kn...
... This chapter begins in 1945 when the Institute's first full-time Executive Director, A. Lincoln ...
The Scott Polar Institute is part of the Cambridge University and a sub-department of the Department...
Discusses role of the National Science Foundation in U.S. research in the Arctic and Antarctic. For ...
During 1882-83 eleven countries cooperated in a project to study the geophysics and geodesy of the p...
Much historical scholarship has examined the events which took place as various explorers ventured i...
[This profile celebrates the accomplishments of the Scott Polar Research Institute and its former he...
2002–2004 marks the centenary of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Led by the Scots natura...
Two fundamental premises I think can be accepted at the outset. First, if the Institute fulfils a us...
Much historical scholarship has examined the events which took place as various explorers ventured i...
Describes the organization and functions of this institute under the Northern Sea Route Board. Its d...
Five expeditions are described: those of Binney 1923 and 1924, Glen 1935-36, and Hartog 1949 (in whi...
The British Antarctic Expedition (BAE) of 1910-1913 will be remembered for the heroic, ill-fated exp...
Dr. Cameron joined the Arctic Institute of North America in 1956 to participate in IGY-related activ...
The Polar community has suffered a great loss in the death in November 1965 of Frank Debenham. Deben...
In 1901, Commander Robert Falcon Scott lead a small group of men to the Antarctica in what is now kn...
... This chapter begins in 1945 when the Institute's first full-time Executive Director, A. Lincoln ...
The Scott Polar Institute is part of the Cambridge University and a sub-department of the Department...
Discusses role of the National Science Foundation in U.S. research in the Arctic and Antarctic. For ...
During 1882-83 eleven countries cooperated in a project to study the geophysics and geodesy of the p...
Much historical scholarship has examined the events which took place as various explorers ventured i...
[This profile celebrates the accomplishments of the Scott Polar Research Institute and its former he...
2002–2004 marks the centenary of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Led by the Scots natura...
Two fundamental premises I think can be accepted at the outset. First, if the Institute fulfils a us...
Much historical scholarship has examined the events which took place as various explorers ventured i...
Describes the organization and functions of this institute under the Northern Sea Route Board. Its d...
Five expeditions are described: those of Binney 1923 and 1924, Glen 1935-36, and Hartog 1949 (in whi...
The British Antarctic Expedition (BAE) of 1910-1913 will be remembered for the heroic, ill-fated exp...
Dr. Cameron joined the Arctic Institute of North America in 1956 to participate in IGY-related activ...