Pink Ice Britain and the South Atlantic Empire

by Klaus Dodds

Book Overview

Formally incorporated into the British Empire in 1908 and again in 1917, the Anterctic Peninsula and wind-blown island chains of the South Atlantic became part of a pink-tinted empire. Some in Britain hoped that the entire Antarctic continent would be annexed. Those hopes were never to be realized yet successive British governments have been determined to maintain, and even fight for Britain's territorial possessions in this faraway region of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860647707
• ISBN13: 9781860647703
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"