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Antarctic Map Folio Series

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19 atlases1964–19751 language10 reviews12 editors’ accounts

The American Geographical Society began preparing the Antarctic Map Folio Series in 1962, with National Science Foundation support, and published its folios from 1964 to 1975. Specialists working with advisory panels drew on data from national Antarctic research programs to assemble thematic maps and explanatory texts summarizing available knowledge. The series covered the upper atmosphere and surface climate, ice sheets and glaciers, magnetic and gravity fields, geology, seafloor and subglacial topography, ocean waters and sediments, and terrestrial and marine life. Its opening folios addressed aeronomy and the physical characteristics of the ice sheet; the latter included ten plates based on international observations during the International Geophysical Year. Later publications extended coverage to birds, benthic fishes and mammals. The final folio, published in October 1975, presented fifteen plates tracing early concepts of Antarctica, voyages, flights and inland traverses, and scientific stations and traverses through 1975. In 1980, the National Science Foundation received the remaining stock of the series for distribution.

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1964–1975

Editors’ Accounts

Reviews & Reception

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