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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Antarctica: The Concept—from Ptolemy to Cook
Authors : Robert Clancy, John Manning, Hank Brolsma
Published in: Mapping Antarctica
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
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Today the Antarctic is most commonly defined as the land and sea south of 60S, an area dominated by a continental landmass surrounding the South Pole and largely covered by ice. Popular use of the name ‘‘Antarctica’’, however, only came about after scattered sightings of land at high latitude were made in the early part of the 19th century.