Abstract
In the year 1867 the United States purchased Alaska from Russia for the sum of 7, 200, 000 dollars. At the time the Americans did not understand why money was being spent on buying a desert. A hundred years later one of the largest oilfields in the world was discovered there at Prudhoe Bay. There seems little doubt that large mineral resources will be found and exploited in the Canadian Arctic. In Greenland mining is now being planned on a large scale, under conditions comparable to those of the Antarctic. No economically exploitable deposits of minerals have been found in Antarctica, but there is no doubt that large deposits exist. Whether the progress of technology will enable such deposits to be located and economically mined is not clear. Experts confidently state that at present this is not feasible. Forty years ago an expert asserted that during our geological period there would be no transit of the Northwest Passage by ship. The voyage was accomplished in 1969 by a large commercial tanker.
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Auburn, F.M. (1972). Introduction. In: The Ross Dependency. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9540-9_1
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