Fixing Antarctica: Mapping the Frozen South

In 1956, in the height of the cold war, the biggest wintering expedition that Australia had ever sent to Antarctica set out to map the great frozen landmass of Antarctica, driven by official fears that the Soviet Union meant to take the continent for themselves.  The fourteen scientists were chosen from a field of hundreds of applicants.  The surveyor, the central character in Fixing Antarctica, was Sydney Kirkby. Over the next twenty years, Syd Kirkby explored and map more unknown regions in the world than any other person in history.

Fixing Antarctica is the first full biography of this important twentieth-century explorer.