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Reference code
US ILfC SC/017-B01/F02
Name and location of repository
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Title
"The Uttermost Part of the Earth: A Journey of Tossing About in the Drake Passage and Life Among the Penguins and Seals of Antartica"
Date(s)
- February - March 1973 (Creation)
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Name of creator
Name of creator
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Scope and content
This is an 8.5" by 11" mimeographed and spiral-bound volume of 33 pages, with stiff gray paper boards from and back, imprinted on the front in red, and with a smal bird image or logo by then adopted by Mr. Beach. The narrative of this trip appears on the pages 1 through p. 29 and it is important to note that the places visited included Anarctica, Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Pages 30 through 33 give summary accounts or a log of trips with the number of visits to continents or regions from 1924 to 1973 (p. 30), "lifetime Country Visitation" in addition to all 50 states (p. 31), airplane refueling stops (p. 32), and other data points like crossing the Equator and the International Date Line.