Abstract
Like many other human enterprises, the Polar Years left their mark in spheres that lay outside their primary purpose. Some of the IPY-1 stations in remote locations are now of great archaeological interest. As the first “mass participation” Polar Year, the IGY was the subject of several works of literature and the other arts, though only in a few countries. And a small number of people, some of them scientists but the majority in supporting roles, were seriously injured or lost their lives while taking part in a Polar Year.
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Notes
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Barr (2008).
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Among others, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)’ special committee on polar heritage (IPHC) attempts to address the challenge of documentation and preservation of historic polar sites in an international perspective. See http://www.polarheritage.com and Barr and Chaplin (2008).
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For illustrations of Arctic stations, see: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/aro/ipy-1/Frontpage.htm. For a short-illustrated information about the Greenlandic IPY stations, see Greenland Collector (stamps) at: http://www.stamps.gl/NR/rdonlyres/CF979115-A986-411A-AD77-DC2FC484B1E9/0/Collector_UK_web.pdf
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Barr (2003:55–57).
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Pers.com. Dec. (2009) Alfredo Prieto, CEHA Instituto de la Patagonia, Chile.
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Personal communication from Pavel Filin.
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Mazurov et al. (1996:33).
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Barr (2008:106).
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Headland (1986:60).
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South Georgia (2006:28–29).
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Kobalenko (2002:127–28).
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Pers.com. from Jerry Kobalenko.
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Barr (2003).
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Thing (2008).
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Information from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/203322/Fedchenko-Glacier, accessed January (2010).
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According to Soviet IGY reports.
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Information from Christoph Mayer via C. Lüdecke
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White, S. (2002).
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Report of the Russian Federation.
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Information from C. Lüdecke.
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Laursen (1951).
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Barr, Susan (1996).
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Quoted in Barr (1996:27).
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Lewander, Lisbert: (2009:18).
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”Seier venter den som har alt i orden. Hell kalles det. Nederlag er en absolutt følge for den som har forsømt å ta de nødvendige forholdsregler i tide. Uhell kalles det.” A slightly bitter reflection on the different fates of Amundsen’s own and of Scott’s expeditions to the South Pole in 1911–1912.
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Annals of the IGY (1959:227).
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Sources are V. Vasnetsov: Under Persey’s starry flag, Leningrad, Gidromet (1974) and a more detailed account in the article “Autographs on maps” by S.V. Popov on the Polyarnaya Pochta Syevodnya website.
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Behrendt (2007:81).
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Behrendt (2007:83).
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Berthon and Robinson (1991).
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Barr, S., Bulkeley, R. (2010). Side-Effects and Traces of the Early IPYs. In: Barr, S., Luedecke, C. (eds) The History of the International Polar Years (IPYs). From Pole to Pole. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12402-0_12
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