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Item Antarctica: a continent for environmental history(Centro de Estudios Hemisféricos y Polares, 2010) Hawkins, AdrianThis paper asks two questions. What can the history of Antarctica contribute to the field of environmental history? And what can the field of environmental history offer our understanding of Antarctic history? Thinking about the environmental history of Antarctica as both strange and familiar, the paper argues that the relative simplicity of Antarctica’s history offers environmental historians an opportunity to think carefully about the theory and practice of their discipline. In turn, the paper argues that the field of environmental history has much to offer our understanding of Antarctic history, using the origins of the 1959 Antarctic Treaty as a brief example.