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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 1. Considering our modern means of travel and communication, it is a matter of some wonder that so large a piece of our Earth planet as the unknown areas of Antarctica still remains unexplored. That the International Geophysical Year would focus unprecedented attention on Antarctica was a foregone conclusion. As plans for our national participation in the co-ordinated geophysical exploration of Antarctica by eleven nations developed, it became increasingly evident that we should bring together available scientific knowledge of the Continent for background purposes in examining the major scientific problems awaiting us.

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Albert Paddock Crary, was a pioneer polar geophysicist and glaciologist. He was the first person to have stepped foot on both the North and South Poles, having made it to the North Pole on May 3, 1952 and then to the South Pole on February 12, 1961, as the leader of a team of eight. L. M. Hulburt is the editor of Antarctica in the International Geophysical Year, Volume 1: Based on a Symposium on the Antarctic, published by Wiley.

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