Heard Island Two Centuries of Change, and More Coming
This highly illustrated volume is a compendium of evidence and examples of change on Heard Island, a World Heritage Site near Antarctica and one of the most remote places on earth. Drawing on records from the past two centuries, as well as his own expeditions to the island in 1997 and 2016, the auth...
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Table of Contents:
- Part1. Two centuries of change
- Section1. Island
- Chapter1. Description
- Chapter2. Images
- Chapter3. Maps
- Section2. History
- Chapter4. Events
- Chapter5. Facilities
- Chapter6. Debris
- Part2. Rocks
- Section3. Provinces
- Chapter7. Atlas Cove
- Chapter8. Laurens Peninsula
- Chapter9. The Spit
- Section4. Volcano
- Chapter10. Big Ben
- Chapter11. Mawson Peak
- Chapter12. Volcanic features
- Section5. Lithics
- Chapter13. Outcroppings
- Chapter14. Till
- Chapter15. Sediment
- Part3. Water
- Section6. Glaciers
- Chapter16. Stephenson Glacier
- Chapter17. AU1141 Glacier
- Chapter18. Glacial features
- Section7. Streams
- Chapter19. Inland streams
- Chapter20. Tidewater streams
- Section8. Lakes
- Chapter21. Stephenson Lagoon
- Chapter22. Large lakes
- Chapter23. Small lakes
- Part4. Ecosystem
- Section9. Biota
- Chapter24. Plants
- Chapter25. Invertebrates
- Chapter26. Birds
- Chapter27. Mammals
- Section10. Environment
- Chapter28. Ocean
- Chapter29. Atmosphere
- Chapter30. Sky.-Part5. More Coming
- Section11. Dynamics
- Chapter31. Populations
- Chapter32. Systems
- Chapter33. EcoSimulation
- Section12. The Future
- Chapter34. Research
- Chapter35. Resources
- Chapter36. The Future of Heard Island