Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Continental Shelf, and a New Arctic Continent
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8395396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Trevor H Levere (University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 233-247 |
| Publication date | 1988-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0874 • E-ISSN: 1474-001X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s000708740002478x |
| OpenAlex | W2142254976 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 17 |
Between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, roughly two hundred expeditions set out for what is now the Canadian Arctic, from its boundary with Alaska in the West, along the northern shore of Canada and including the Arctic archipelago between that shore and the pole, to the marine boundary with Danish Greenland in the East. For more than half a century, these expeditions were little concerned with Canada as a political entity; after all, it had not yet been truly created as a nation. Besides, science was a major part of the mandate of many of the Arctic expeditions, almost half of which achieved significant scientific results; and science, while partly a national activity, was also a trans-national one. John Franklin's last expedition, made famous by disaster, had, typically, been largely motivated by scientific curiosity; the resolution of geomagnetic questions loomed large in Franklin's instructions
Ancient history · Archipelago · Arctic · Geography · Political science · Politics · The arctic · Alexander von Humboldt Studies · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Geology · History · Law · Oceanography · Polar Research and Ecology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2022 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |