ABSTRACT
The first sign that Antarctica was moving into a resource age occurred at a 1968 symposium held at Cambridge University under the auspices of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, the nongovernmental group of scientists from many nations which had coordinated research in the Antarctic since the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year (IGY). This was the second symposium of the Special Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Working Group on Biology, a committee that, despite its understated title, served as the fulcrum for international research in the field. 1
