Antarctic Peninsula & Tierra del Fuego: 100 years of Swedish-Argentine scientific cooperation at the end of the world : Proceedings of "Otto Nordensjold's Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1903 and Swedish Scientists in Patagonia: A Symposium", Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 2-7, 2003

著者名：Rabassa, Jorge (EDT)/Borla, Maria Laura (EDT)

CRC Press（2006/11/23発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781138381322
• eISBN：9781498718240

Description

This symposium, held in Argentina in March 2003, commemorates Otto Nordenskjold's 1901 expedition, and pays tribute to the Swedish and Argentinian explorers who took on the challenge of early fieldwork in Patagonia and Antarctica. This theme is extended to include recent fieldwork in the natural sciences in the Archipelago of Tierra del Fuego, the

Table of Contents

PrefacePart 1. Natural HistoryThe work of Nordic geologists in ArgentinaCarl Caldenius and other links between the Nordenskjold expedition and recent Argentine-Swedish cooperation in Quaternary geologyStraddling the Drake Passage. A summary of Otto Nordenskjolds and his geological co-worker‘s achievements in Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic PeninsulaSwedish glaciological work around the Weddell Sea during the last centuryLate Cretaceous-Early Tertiary marine and terrestrial vertebrates from James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula: a reviewAn appraisal of the report by Einar Lonnberg (1905) on fishes collected by the Swedish South Polar ExpeditionBotany during the Swedish Antarctic expedition 1901-1903Ozone and UV-B irradiances over Antarctica in the last decadesSalt-marsh vegetation as biological indicator of increased solar UV-B radiation consequence of ozone global depletion.One hundred years ago: The Swedish Expedition to the South Pole (October 16th, 1901, Goteborg-December 2nd, 1903, Buenos Aires). Its scientific production and historical implicationsPart 2. Human SciencesPioneers of scientific cooperation. About memory, oblivion and representations of the pastSouth Polar imaginations and geopolitical realities - Contextualising Otto Nordensjold's scientific internationalism and its limits Open horizons: A trek through Otto Nordenskjold's many landscapesPemmican and penguin-breast, but no pie. Daily problems of Polar explorers during the Heroic Age of Antarctic explorationTo remember and restore the Argentine rescuers of the Nordenskjold Expedition 1901-1903Sea nomads of the Beagle Channel and surrounding areas