Sentences with phrase «of polar explorations»

Life - size, full - color figures of often gruesome criminals are displayed in the cells which once housed them, right alongside histories of polar exploration and dry - as - dust railroad and postal exhibits.

The age of polar exploration provided a wealth of information for science to sift, while at the same time fulfilling the aspirations of nations to compete with others and even to stake potential territorial claims, with all the attendant allure of financial gain.

As you read the original accounts of this extraordinary age of polar exploration, written a century or more ago, you may be reminded of the common character of exploration, science and technology, each of which celebrate the opening of new frontiers, the discovery of unknown facts and the advancement of human endeavors.

Britain has a great history of polar exploration and science — a history of Scott and Shackleton, and many other explorers, who all had a close link to this city, home of the British Antarctic Survey and the Scott Polar Institute.

New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white - knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age.

Housing the world's most famous polar ship, The Fram Museum details the history of polar exploration, and the Viking Ship Museum allows you to get up close to two wonderfully preserved wooden Viking ships that date back to the 9th century.

Not exact matches

In «An Expedition to the Pole,» Dillard sets polar exploration next to the worship of a small Catholic parish to see what this juxtaposition might produce.

In her new book Melting Away, Seaman collects the photographs and essays that resulted from this exploration of our increasingly fragile polar regions.

The North Pole and Its Seekers October 28, 1868 New Expeditions to the Arctic Regions June 24, 1871 The Latest Arctic Explorations — The Remarkable Escape of the Polaris Party June 7, 1873 Rescue of the Remaining Survivors of the Polaris October 4, 1873 The Latest Polar Expedition December 26, 1874 Work for Arctic Explorers July 17, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition The Coming Arctic Expeditions May 22, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition August 28, 1975 July 3, 1876 The Search for the Pole The British Arctic Expedition December 23 and 30, 1876 The Recent Arctic Expedition January 20, 1877 Another Approach: Balloons and Airships Some Suggestions for Future Polar Expeditions February 13, 1877 Proposed New British Polar Expedition September 20, 1879 To the North Pole by Balloon July 13, 1895 Wellman's Airship for His North Polar Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American July 7, 1906 The Wellman Polar Airship Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American June 22, 1907 Farther North The American Arctic Expedition September 14, 1878 The Peary Arctic Expedition July 15, 1893 Nansen's Polar Expedition March 14, 1896 The Recent Failures of Arctic Expeditions August 29, 1896 The Return of Lieut. Peary September 27, 1902 The Polar Regions June 11, 1904 Peary's New Ship for Work in Arctic Seas October 8, 1904 Peary and the North Pole July 15, 1905 Peary's Arctic Ship, The «Roosevelt» July 15, 1905 Peary's «Farthest North» November 17, 1906 Race to the Finish: Peary and Cook Peary's Quest of the North Pole July 18, 1908 Peary and the North Pole August 21, 1909 Dr. Cook and the North Pole September 11, 1909 Dr. Cook's Discovery of the North Pole September 11, 1909 Honor to Whom Honor is Due September 18, 1909 Commander Peary's Discovery of the North Pole September 18, 1909 Retrospect of the Year 1909: Exploration January 1, 1910 «Investigating» Peary April 22, 1911 THE SOUTH POLE Exploring Antarctica Antarctic Exploration January 23, 1897 To South Polar Lands February 13, 1897 The Voyage of the «Discovery» February 3, 1906 Antarctic Expeditions, Past and Present Some Heroes of Exploration November 11, 1911 Dr. Charcot's Antarctic Expedition November 30, 1907 Motoring Toward the Pole By Motor Car to the South Pole By J. S. Dunnet October 19, 1907 The Shackleton Antarctic Expedition By John Plummer August 29, 1908 Lieut. Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition April 3, 1909 Lieut. Shackleton April 9, 1910 Two Novel Motor Sleds By Walter Langford May 14, 1910 Race to the Finish: Amundsen and Scott The Antarctic Expeditions January 13, 1912 The Discovery of the South Pole March 16, 1912 Amundsen's Attainment of the South Pole Progress of Antarctic Exploration By G. W. Littlehales, Hydrographic Office, United States Navy March 23, 1912 Capt. Scott at the South Pole April 13, 1912 Shadows at the South Pole June 15, 1912 The Scott Expedition and its Tragic End A Sacrifice Made for Scientific Ideals February 22, 1913 Achievements and Lessons of the Scott Expedition March 1, 1913 To the South Pole with the Cinematograph Film Records of Scott's Ill - Fated Expedition June 21, 1913 Science in the Heroic Age The Height of the Antarctic Continent By Walter Langford June 4, 1910 The Renewed Siege of the Antarctic January 17, 1914 Shackleton's South Polar Expedition The Value of His Scientific Observations By Henryk Arctowski June 17, 1916 Thawing Scott's Legacy A pioneer in atmosphere ozone studies, Susan Solomon rewrites the history of a fatal polar expedition By Sarah Simpson December 2001 Greater Glory In the race to the South Pole, explorer Robert F. Scott refused to sacrifice his ambitious science agenda By Edward J. Larson June 2011

The state and future of Mars polar science and exploration S. M. Clifford, D. Crisp, D. A. Fisher, K. E. Herkenhoff, S. E. Smrekar, P. C. Thomas, D. D. Wynn - Williams, R. W. Zurek, J. R. Barnes, B. G. Bills, E. W. Blake, W. M. Calvin, J. M. Cameron, M. H. Carr, P. R. Christensen, B. C. Clark, G. D. Clow, J. A. Cutts, D. Dahi - Jensen, W. B. Durham, F. P. Fanale, J. D. Farmer, F. Forget, K. Gotto - Azuma, R. Grard, R. M. Haberle, W. Harrison, R. Harvey, A. D. Howard, A. P. Ingersoll, P. B. James, J. S. Kargel, H. H. Kieffer, J. Larsen, K. Lepper, M. C. Malin, D. J. McCleese, B. Murray, J. F. Nye, D. A. Paige, S. R. Platt, J. J. Plaut, N. Reeh, J. W. Rice Jr., D. E. Smith, C. R. Stoker, K. L. Tanaka, E. Mosley - Thompson, T. Thorsteinsson, S. E. Wood, A. Zent, M. T. Zuber, and H. J. Zwally Icarus 144, 210 — 242, doi: 10.1006 / icar.1999.6290, April 2000.

The zero emission polar research station, which is approximately 220 Km from the Antarctic coast, is an ideal logistics hub for field exploration in the 20 ° - 30 ° E sector of Antarctica.

Current studies include the exploration of Arctic deep - sea life under the ice, and the long - term observation of the effects of global warming on polar ecosystems as well as on hypoxic aquatic ecosystems.

BOLT Resident Joseph G. Cruz investigates representations of nineteenth - century polar expeditions, satellite imagery, and lunar exploration.

As an Inuvialuit artist her exploration of Indigenous materials variously includes polar bear fur, seal skin and whale intestines in combination with anodized aluminum, pvc, wool and other materials associated with industry.

The exhibition's conceptual exploration also plays on these polar opposites, which are central to the artist's exploration of the relationship between spiritual and physical self.

Other references are more obscure: Rasputin's fingernails are presented in a vitrine in a chamber built like a tree house (you have to climb a ladder to get to it), and it is pretty difficult to concentrate on the vitrine of objects related to polar exploration, which are on loan from the Royal Geographic Society, because there's a DVD of The Cure's Greatest Hits blaring over it.

With the melting of the polar ice caps, countries around the world are finding that new shipping lanes are now opening up, and with that, areas that were previously off limits to exploration and drilling are now accessible.

Here's where the rubber hits the road: even while the Interior Department was slowly taking steps to give these bears ESA protection, the Bush Administration opened almost 30 million acres of polar bear habitat to oil and gas exploration, a move that by their own admission threaten polar bears.

But wait, others said, a polar exploration ship from the 19th century was truly the beginning of passive house.

Led «voyage of exploration through liquid space,» including a course beneath the polar icecap.