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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 28, No. 12. 1965.

Antarctic Correspondent

Antarctic Correspondent

While the purist may quibble at the lack of depth and the traps of generalisation, this is not meant to be a technical book. It is a book about a strange environment and, in an often racy style, provides a broadly painted scenario of New Zealanders in the 20th century developing frontiers, as did their forebears 100 years ago.

Helicopters and snowcats have replaced the horse and cart, but foot-slogging is still an essential mode of transport. In spite of its deficiencies in content and production—some of the colour tends toward the lurid—it has brought to the public at a reasonable cost a readable account of an exciting place, a place inaccessible to most.

As a record of the pioneering endeavour of New Zealanders, this book has a definite place on the shelf of the well-informed student of man in his environment.

For those who have been lucky enough to have been there. South serves as a reminder of hardships, pleasures, companionship and intellectual endeavour. For those who prefer warmer climates, its pages may be offset by turning up the radiator.

Answers to problems on page 18 in this issue.

1. Prime number problem

equation

2. Columns answer is a total of four + and − signs:

98 — 76 + 54 + 3 + 21 = 100

3. The triangle has zero area.

As 18 + 13 = 31

4. Wrong.

5. The fish describes two sides of a right-angled triangle 600 and 800 feet respectively. The diameter is the hypotenuse of this triangle—1000 feet.