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The meridian transit beacons: a Shackleton legacy on South Georgia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2011

Robert Burton
Robert Burton*
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Abstract

The construction and history of meridian transit beacons erected by members of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition at King Edward Cove, South Georgia, in 1914 are described.

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Polar Record , Volume 47 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 374 - 377
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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