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It is a story of great scientific exploration as well as human endurance as the ship became trapped in the sea ice for nearly 13 months. The scientists and crew were the first to endure the debilitating harshness of the dark, long Antarctic winter and uncertainty of survival. Yet, the entrapment also offered a unique opportunity for the scientists and the crew to collate ground-breaking scientific data on the ocean and land near the Antarctic Peninsula.People also endured 'polar anemia' that led some crew members to write their will fearing death. They also visited the Beagle Channel in Patagonia. This 296 pages book contains some 190 illustrations, with many original photographs that have been coloured in. It also presents a lot of information on modern-day conditions around the Antarctic Peninsula that demonstrate a significant change over 125 years. There are 10 pages of references, mostly all of scientific nature.

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Patrick De Deckker is a geologist with a doctorate in zoology. He was educated in Belgium, Switzerland and Australia. He commenced working on microcrustaceans (ostracods) and salt lakes, then used the remains of microorganisms to determine environmental change in large lacustrine systems. Using the same approach, he continued his investigations with the aim of identifying changes in all three oceans surrounding Australia, and spent much time investigating the Australian sector of the Southern Ocean. Patrick spent one summer season sampling lakes in the vicinity of the Australian Antarctic Casey base, and also examined the possible record of Australian dust in Antarctic ice cores (with results published). Patrick is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and also the recipient of several distinguished awards, including the Christoffel Plantin Medal bestowed by the Governor of the Antwerp Province in Belgium.

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