IPHC PUBLICATION IN ICOMOS SERIES


Release of publication number VIII in the ICOMOS series “Monuments and Sites".

    

“CULTURAL HERITAGE PROTECTION IN THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC REGIONS”  is a compilation of 14 separate commentaries that present many of the unique issues associated with heritage protection in polar regions.  Contributors are all members of the International Polar Heritage Committee who have written on a variety of subjects related to their own areas of expertise. The publication has been compiled and edited by IPHC President Susan Barr and Secretary General Paul Chaplin.

Consisting of 80 pages this is the first in the ICOMOS series to be published in full colour and includes a large number of spectacular photos.

If you would like a copy of this interesting overview of polar heritage site protection you can order a copy at a very reasonable price.  CONTACT US.

(Nov 2005)

List of Contents

Paul Chaplin and Susan Barr

An overview of polar heritage sites

Susan Barr

Polar monuments and sites – An introduction

Paul Chaplin

Polar Heritage sites at risk – Politics, principles and practical problems

Janet Hughes

Deterioration of Antarctic historic sites – Effects of Antarctic climates on materials and implications for preservation

Roberta Farrell, Robert Blanchette (et al)

Scientific Evaluation of Deterioration in Historic Huts of Ross Island, Antarctica

Michael Pearson

Artefact or rubbish – A dilemma for Antarctic managers

Geoff Ashley and Richard Mackay

Mawson’s huts historic site, Antarctica: The conservation management plan as a decision making tool

Doug Olynyk

Canada’s Yukon territory – Heritage at the edge

Glenn W. Sheehan and Anne M. Jensen

When the indigenous tradition and the scientific tradition merge: Ukpeagvik Iñupiat Corporation’s Science Center in Barrow, Alaska

Jean-François Le Mouël

Heritage in the French sub-antarctic territory: Between urgency and emergency

Cornelia Lüdecke

German meteorological and magnetic base station on the Kerguelen Islands (1901-1903).

Ruben Stehberg

Archaeologists document historical heritage in the South Shetland Islands

Louwrens Hacquebord

Dutch cultural heritage in the Arctic