Bird Island in Antarctic waters
Few maps show the location of Bird Island -- a lonely outcrop in the South Georgia group where Antarctic waters push against the Atlantic east of Cape Horn. Its forbidding flanks invite few human visitors. But for those who reach its shores there are rich.
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- Full title :Bird Island in Antarctic waters / David F. Parmelee.
Summary
Few maps show the location of Bird Island -- a lonely outcrop in the South Georgia group where Antarctic waters push against the Atlantic east of Cape Horn. Its forbidding flanks invite few human visitors. But for those who reach its shores there are rich.
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- Publication Date:©1980.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
- Place of Publication:Minneapolis
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1980.
Notes
"The adventures of an artist/ornithologist on a lonely outcrop in the far South Atlantic"--Cover
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (x, 140 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : : illustrations (some color)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780816663927, 0816663920, 9780816609406, 0816609403
- oclc:ocn233035280
- LC Classification:QL695.2
- Dewey Decimal:598.2998/9
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments; Bird Island Species; Table of Contents; South with the Fids; The Tussock Isles; Lönnberg House: The First Night; Tussock, Wildlife, and Wind; Blue Petrels; The Monarchs of Bird Island; Saturday Night at Lönnberg House; Scavenging Tussock Ducks; Stinkers; Blue-Eyed Shags; Farewell Point; Skuas; Last Impressions; Selected Bibliography; Index.
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