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Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica
About this book
Rebecca Priestley longs to be in Antarctica. But it is also the last place on Earth she wants to go. In 2011 Priestley visits the wide white continent for the first time, on a trip that coincides with the centenary of Robert Falcon Scott's fateful trek to the South Pole. For Priestley, 2011 is the fulfilment of a dream that took root in a childhood full of books, art and science and grew stronger during her time as a geology student in the 1980s. She is to travel south twice more, spending time with Antarctic scientists – including paleo-climatologists, biologists, geologists, glaciologists – exploring the landscape, marvelling at wildlife from orca to tardigrades, and occasionally getting very cold. A constant companion for Priestley is her anxiety – both the kind that is brought on by flying to the bottom of the world in a military aeroplane; and the kind that clouds our thoughts of how our world will be for our children. Writing against the backdrop of Trump's America, extreme weather events, and scientists' projections for Earth's climate, she grapples with the truths we need to tell ourselves as we stand on a tightrope between hope for the planet, and catastrophic change. Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica offers a deeply personal tour of a place in which a person can feel like an outsider in more ways than one. With generosity and candour, Priestley reflects on what Antarctica can tell us about Earth's future and asks: do people even belong in this fragile, otherworldly place?
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Index
acidification 267
Adam see Lewis, Adam
Adams, Byron 291–9
Adélie penguins 38–40, 300–1, 304, 306–10, 312–18, 321–2, 359
adrenaline 228, 243, 278
Ainley, Dave 304, 306–8, 310–14, 338, 340–1
air crashes 119, 228–9
alcohol overindulgence 227, 260; see also whisky
algae 42
at Hut Point Peninsula 52–3
in marine food web 335
nematodes eating 295
Alexa see Hasselman, Alexa
Alice see Miller, Alice
Allan Hills 243, 320
alpine glaciers 122, 137
amino acids 320
ammunition, testing 331–4
Amundsen, Roald 15, 112
Amundsen Sea 65
Andrew (acoustics expert) see Wright, Andrew
Andrew (Australian professor) see McMinn, Andrew
Andrew (geophysicist) see Gorman, Andrew
Andrew (postdoctoral researcher) see Martin, Andrew
Andrew (director ARC) see Mackintosh, Andrew
Andrill project 123, 126–7, 129, 179, 198
anemones 325
Antarctic art 108–9
Antarctic documentaries 304, 335
Antarctic Environmental Protocol 145
Antarctic Field Training 26–30, 229, 238, 247–8, 251, 284
Antarctic Navigation 58
Antarctic Peninsula 19
tour boats 311
warming of 114, 306, 321
Antarctic scallop 59
Antarctic ...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- I. Antarctica 2011
- II. Deep Time
- III. Antarctica 2014
- IV. Wellington 2017
- V. Antarctica 2018
- Author’s Note
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Select Bibliography
- Index