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On The Antarctic Continent: Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition
1898-1900
Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink was an Antarctic explorer, whose group was
the first to winter on the continental mainland. Although he was not a properly
trained scientist his pioneering work in the Antarctic was valuable to later,
more elaborate, scientific expeditions. A personal narrative of the 'Southern
Cross' by the commander of the expedition.
Original publisher George Newnes
1901.
Facsimile edition published 1980 by McGill-Queens, with an introduction
by Tore Gjelsvik, Director of the Norwegian Polar Inst.
