Erebus the Ice Dragon : a portrait of an Antarctic volcano / Colin Monteath.
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Auckland, New Zealand :
Massey University Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine-generated: Foreword / Peter Barrett
- Erebus : son of chaos
- Antarctica ; carved in ice, forged by fire
- 'Mountains of Madness' : a continent ringed by fiery islands
- 'This splendid burning mountain' ; the discovery of Mount Erebus, 1841
- 'Keeper of the southern gateway' : the first ascent of Mount Erebus, 1908
- 'Give me Erebus for my friend' : the second ascent, 1912
- HMS Pemmican sails on Erebus : the third ascent, 1959, and beyond
- The heartbeat of Erebus : probing the defences of the volcano, 1970s
- 'No latitude for error' : reflections on the 1979 Ross Island air crash
- The darkness beckons : Roger Mear's solo winter ascent of Erebus, 1985
- Scrambles in the heart of the Antarctic : an ascent of Erebus from Cape Royds, 1991
- Tread lightly in a land of extremophiles : the unique microbial world of Erebus
- The magma and the mantle : solving the Erebus enigma 1980-2016.. and beyond
- Shaping a volcano : Erebus and the artistic imagination / Adelle Jackson
- Erebus chronology
- Air New Zealand Flight TE
- Glossary
- Notes
- Further reading
- About the author
- Acknowledgements.
