The Antarctic Treaty of 1959, which dedicates the continent to peace and international scientific cooperation in the face of rising east–west tensions, is informed in part by a shared scientific imaginary created by the UK and other nations which maintained scientific bases in Antarctica at the time. In this article, the poet offers works extracted from her longer sequence “Met Obs,” based on meteorological reports and journals from the UK station at Port Lockroy written in advance of the 1957–1958 International Geophysical Year (IGY). The poems engage with the work and circumstances which helped foster such an imaginary, as well as with the nexus of Antarctic “values” endorsed by the Treaty, and the later Madrid Protocol. The commentary further contextualises these literary responses in terms of the attitudes of the men working there as well as the “wilderness and aesthetic values” recognised by the later Protocol on Environmental Protection. The world of the poems may belong to 1950s Antarctica, but their observations reach beyond that experience, making a case for the continued relevance of Treaty values, and for the importance of artistic, as well as scientific, responses to the environment in a world under threat from accelerating climate change and competition for resources.

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从 BAS 档案中创作诗歌：对新诗歌序列“Met Obs”的评论和摘录

1959 年的《南极条约》将大陆致力于和平与国际科学合作，以应对不断升级的东西方紧张局势，部分原因是英国和其他在南极洲设有科学基地的国家创造了共同的科学想象。时间。在这篇文章中，这位诗人提供了从她较长的序列“Met Obs”中提取的作品，这些作品是根据英国洛克罗伊港站的气象报告和期刊在 1957-1958 国际地球物理年 (IGY) 之前撰写的。这些诗与有助于培养这种想象的工作和环境以及条约和后来的马德里议定书所认可的南极“价值观”的联系有关。评论进一步根据在那里工作的人的态度以及后来的《环境保护议定书》所承认的“荒野和审美价值”，将这些文学回应置于语境中。诗歌的世界可能属于 1950 年代的南极洲，但他们的观察超越了这种经验，证明了条约价值观的持续相关性，以及艺术和科学对环境的重要性来自加速气候变化和资源竞争的威胁。