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A Wise Adventure: New Zealand in Antarctica 1920-60
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ISBN10: 0864734034
ISBN13: 9780864734037
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: Mar 1 2001
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.91
Height: 1.14 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780864734037
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: Mar 1 2001
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.91
Height: 1.14 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
This is the story of how New Zealand's attitude to its wedge-shaped slice of Antarctica moved gradually over forty years from one of near neglect to one of active involvement in the negotiation of an international regime designed to protect the southernmost continent from political rivalries and potential damage to the fragile environment.
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