Antarctic Peninsula & Tierra del Fuego : 100 years of Swedish-Argentine scientific cooperation at the end of the world : proceedings of "Otto Nordenskjöld's Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1903 and Swedish scientists in Patagonia : a symposium", held in Buenos Aires, La Plata and Ushuaia, Argentina, March 2-7, 2003 /: 100 years of Swedish-Argentine scientific cooperation at the end of the world : proceedings of "Otto Nordenskjöld's Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1903 and Swedish scientists in Patagonia : a symposium", held in Buenos Aires, La Plata and Ushuaia, Argentina, March 2-7, 2003. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Antarctic Peninsula and Tierra del Fuego
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jorge Rabassa & María Laura Borla.
• Other Names: Rabassa, Jorge; Borla, María Laura
• Contents: Preface Part 1. Natural History EDGARDO ROLLERI: The work of Nordic geologists in Argentina JAN LUNDQVIST: Carl Caldenius and other links between the Nordenskjöld expedition and recent Argentine–Swedish cooperation in Quaternary geology CHRISTIAN HJORT, ÓLAFUR INGÓLFSSON and KENT LARSSON: Straddling the Drake Passage. A summary of Otto Nordenskjöld´s and his geological co-worker´s achievements in Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Peninsula PER HOLMLUND and STIG JONSSON: Swedish glaciological work around the Weddell Sea during the last century MARCELO A. REGUERO and ZULMA GASPARINI: Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary marine and terrestrial vertebrates from James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula: a review ROBERTO C. MENNI and LUIS O. LUCIFORA: An appraisal of the report by Einar Lönnberg (1905) on fishes collected by the Swedish South Polar Expedition INGIBJÖRG S. JÓNSDÓTTIR: Botany during the Swedish Antarctic expedition 1901-1903 SUSANA B. DIAZ, GUILLERMO A. DEFERRARI, PAULA K. VIGLIAROLO, DON W. NELSON, M. CAROLINA CAMILIÓN and CLAUDIO E. BRUNAT: Ozone and UV-B irradiances over Antarctica in the last decades OSCAR BIANCIOTTO, LUIS PINEDO, NEMESIO SAN ROMÁN, ALICIA BLESSIO, EVA MARÍA KOCH and CÉSAR B. COSTA: Salt-marsh vegetation as biological indicator of increased solar UV-B radiation consequence of ozone global depletion. MARCELA CIOCCALE and JORGE RABASSA: One hundred years ago: The Swedish Expedition to the South Pole (October 16th, 1901, Göteborg-December 2nd, 1903, Buenos Aires). Its scientific production and historical implications Part 2. Human Sciences NOEMÍ M. GIRBAL-BLACHA: Pioneers of scientific cooperation. About memory, oblivion and representations of the past AANT ELZINGA: South Polar imaginations and geopolitical realities – Contextualising Otto Nordensjöld’s scientific internationalism and its limits TORGNY NORDIN: Open horizons: A trek through Otto Nordenskjöld’s many landscapes MONIKA SCHILLAT: Pemmican and penguin-breast, but no pie. Daily problems of Polar explorers during the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration LISBETH LEWANDER: To remember and restore the Argentine rescuers of the Nordenskjöld Expedition 1901-1903 ERNESTO L. PIANA, MYRIAN R. ALVAREZ and NADIA S. RÚA: Sea nomads of the Beagle Channel and surrounding areas
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (214 pages), (10 illustrations)
• Subjects: 919.89; Scientific expeditions -- Antarctica -- Congresses; Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Swedish -- Congresses; Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Argentine -- Congresses; Travel -- Antarctica -- Congresses; Congresses
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482265897; 1482265893
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