Cold colonies: Antarctic spatialities at Mawson and McMurdo stations

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 234-254

  Collis, Christy ^a   Stevens, Quentin ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Colonialism; Spatiality

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; COLONIZATION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; POLAR REGION;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MAWSON STATION; MCMURDO STATION;

EID: 34548095107     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474474007075356     Document Type: Article

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