need for guidelines 191–2
possible motivations 177–8
reactions to 176–7, 179
tourist numbers 192
well-established industry 186
tourists 174, 179–80, 190, 191, 194
Transantarctic Mountains 48, 99, 100–101, 102, 121
transport 181–2
‘Tumbleweed’, NASA robot 129
twilight 17, 114
‘unassisted’ vs ‘unsupported’ 183
United States
occupation basis for claim 143
presence 82, 138, 147–8
universe expansion 131
U.S. Antarctic Artists and Writers Program 163–4
Vaughan, Norman D. 181
vegetation 117, 120
Verne, Jules 33, 44–5
Virgil 35
vortex myth 35, 40, 50–51
Vostok (Russian station) 102, 108, 134–5, 144, 144, 149
waste removal 87, 87, 192
water usage 87
Weddell, James 58–9
West Antarctica 99, 124
whales 116
whaling 141–2
Wilkes, Charles 59, 152
Wilkins, Hubert 77–8
Wilson, Edward 61–2, 70, 115, 154
wind speed 105, 108
wintering personnel 60–61, 90–94
With Byrd to the South Pole (film) 79
women 90–91, 90, 180, 194–5
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