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Turning the world upside down

Nature volume 480, pages 29–31 (2011)Cite this article

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Research, not pole-bagging, was the lasting achievement of Antarctic exploration 100 years ago, says Edward J. Larson.

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  1. Edward J. Larson is university professor of history and law at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California 90263, USA. His most recent book is An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science (Yale Univ. Press, 2011).,

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Correspondence to Edward J. Larson.

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Larson, E. Turning the world upside down. Nature 480, 29–31 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/480029a

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