Introduction
Professional archaeology has been practiced in the Southern Ocean and Antarctic region since the 1970s with archaeologists from Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States undertaking the survey, recording, and excavating a number of maritime sites. This work has been undertaken primarily to create inventories of historic places and to aid in the conservation of historic buildings, and as a result, this work has been almost exclusively terrestrially based.
Definition
The Southern Ocean and Antarctic cover more than one-eleventh of the Earth’s surface. Antarctica is the fifth largest continent in the world, while the Southern Ocean is the fourth largest ocean, extending from the shores of Antarctica to 60° south to the approximate extent of the Antarctic Convergence (although this definition is often broadened to include the Subantarctic Islands south of 45° latitude).
The Southern Ocean comprises the world’s southernmost body...
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Carter, M., Jateff, E. (2018). Southern Ocean and Antarctic Maritime Archaeology. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_603-2
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