“Cruising to Otherworldly Antarctica” and “Antarctica's March of the Tourists” are stories that ran last month on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. They spoke about a voyage of the MS Fram, “an ice-breaking Norwegian pleasure ship” that brought tourists to Antarctica.
Works on travel in Antarctica are classed in 919.8904 Travel in Antarctica (built with base number 91 plus T2—989 Antarctica plus notation 04 Travel from the add table under 913-919 Geography of and travel in ancient world and specific continents, countries, localities in modern world; extraterrestrial worlds, as instructed at 913-919). Notation 04 Travel has the note: “Class here discovery, exploration; guidebooks.” Examples of works classed in 919.8904 are Antarctica (a Lonely Planet guidebook) and Antarctic Odyssey: In the Footsteps of the South Polar Explorers.
Accounts of early exploratory trips in Antarctica are also classed in 919.8904, e.g., The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram,” 1910-1912, by Roald Amundsen, and Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition, by Robert Falcon Scott. There is no way to express historical period. At 041-049 Historical periods in the add table under 913-919, the instruction is to “add to 04 the historical period numbers following 0 that appear in subdivisions of 930-990.” There are, however, no historical period numbers in 930-990 for Antarctica. In the schedule at 998 Arctic islands and Antarctica, there is a footnote: “Add as instructed under 930-990; however, do not add historical periods.”
Hopefully there will be more tourist going to Antarctica to see the beauty of the last "independent" continent. I personally think that Antarctica is one of the most beautiful places on the Earth.
Posted by: Yetti | December 13, 2008 at 06:22 PM