Catalog Record
"A brief biographical notice of each contributor appears ... [at] the beginning of his paper" Polar exploration by aircraft / Richard E. Byrd -- Polar exploration by Airplane / George H. Wilkins -- Arctic flying experiences by airplane and airship / Lincoln Ellsworth -- The dirigible and polar exploration / Umberto Nobile -- Ice navigation / Robert A. Bartlett -- Air navigation methods in the polar regions / O.M. Miller Political rights in the polar regions / David Hunter Miller -- Unsolved problems of Antarctic exploration and research / Sir Douglas Mawson -- The oceanographical problems of the Antarctic / Erich von Drygalski -- Climatic relations between Antarctica and Australia / Griffith Taylor -- The meteorology of the American quadrant of the Antarctic / Jules Rouch -- Geological problems of Antarctica / R.E. Priestley and C.E. Tilley -- Some ice problems of Antarctica / R.E. Priestley and C.S. Wright -- Antarctic and sub-Antarctic plant life and some of its problems / R.N. Rudmose Brown -- Antarctic zoogeography and some of its problems / Robert Cushman Murphy The ice cover of the Arctic Sea, with a genetic classification of sea ice / N.A. Transehe -- The Arctic pack and the polynya; Unsolved problems in Arctic plant geography / A. Kolchak, John W. Harshberger -- Unsolved problems in Arctic zoogeography / Leonhard Stejneger -- Ethnological problems of Arctic America / Diamond Jenness -- Tasks for future research in Eskimo culture / Knud Rasmussen -- Ethnographic problems of the Eurasian Arctic / Waldemar Bogoras -- The resources of the Arctic and the problem of their utilization / Vilhjalmur Stefansson The oceanographic problems of the still unknown Arctic regions / Fridtjof Nansen -- Arctic tides; the bearing of polar meteorology on world weather / H.A. Marmer, H.H. Clayton -- The influence of Arctic meteorology on the climate of Canada especially / Sir Frederic Stupart -- Unsolved problems in terrestrial magnetism and electricity in the polar regions / L.A. Bauer -- Unsolved geological problems of Arctic America / A.P. Colemen -- The geology of Arctic Eurasia and its unsolved problems / I.P. Tolmachev iv, 479 pages illustrations, maps (some color, 1 folded), diagrams 26 cm