antarctica: the empire of whiteness

Florentin Smarandache

ANTARCT ICAThe Empire of Whiteness

Florentin Smarandache

Antarctica: The Empire of Whiteness

Editură: Pons asbl

5, Quai du Batelage, Bruxelles, Belgium

Redactor: Georgiana Antonescu

Paginare: Societatea cultural-științifică AdSumus

13, D. Cantemir, Oradea, România

ISBN 978-1-59973-384-5

Florentin Smarandache

ANTARCTICAThe Empire of Whiteness

Bruxelles, 2016

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This album is a photolog of a cruise made by

the author with the ship “Plancius” in the

empire of whiteness which is Antarctica.