Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xiii
4. Preface xxiii
5. Acknowledgements xxix
6. 1. The Antarctic Ice Sheet Puzzle 1
7. 2. Sounding through the Ice 8
8. 3. The Advent of Radio-Echo Sounding 21
9. 4. Flight into the Unknown: Long-Range Antarctic Campaigns Commence 43
10. 5. The Second Antarctic Season 1969–70: A Task for Hercules 63
11. 6. Review and New Plans 111
12. 7. The Continental Survey Begins: A Land Emerges 125
13. 8. New Impetus 153
14. 9. 1974–75: Radio-Echo Sounding Comes of Age 185
15. 10. Data, Research, and Politics 210
16. 11. Changing Planes 224
17. 12. The Final Season, 1978–79 256
18. 13. The Axe Falls 286
19. 14. The Antarctic Folio 304
20. 15. The Last Push 342
21. 16. The Aftermath 350
22. 17. Reflections 364
23. Appendix 1 DISPLAY AND RECORDING OF RES DATA 379
24. Appendix 2 SPRI RESEARCH STUDENTS IN THE RADIO-ECHO SOUNDING PROGRAMME 383
25. Abbreviations 385
26. Glossary 389
27. Index 397