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Polar Horizons: Images of the Arctic in Accounts of Amundsen's Polar Aviation Expeditions (2010)

Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Volume: 33, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 99-120

Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “The History of Circumpolar Science and Technology”
Language: English

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Scientific expeditions Landscape; landscapes Photographs Aeronautics; aviation 20th century, early Polar regions Amundsen, Roald

Despite the conquest of the poles in the pre-war era, in the interwar years explorers continued to be drawn towards the poles---only now they travelled by air. Historians of exploration have argued that the introduction of this modern technology raised the explorer far above the perils of the polar ice, thereby eliminating the danger and hardship at the core of heroic exploration narratives. In this argument, the use of aircraft marked the end of the age of heroic exploration. Examining the press coverage of Roald Amundsen's polar flights, however, reveals a more complex picture. Although the use of aircraft introduced tensions into the exploration narrative, particularly with regard to the images of the Arctic landscape deployed in these stories, analyzing these images highlights the ways in which the polar landscape was constructed in order to both renegotiate and rearticulate heroic exploration narratives in the era of polar aviation.

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Article Piper, Liza (2010) Introduction: The History of Circumpolar Science and Technology. Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine (pp. 1-9). unapi

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