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Title 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 / edited by Jorge Rabassa & María Laura Borla.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 214 pages) : illustrations, maps
Swedish language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of contributors; Part 1: Natural History; The work of Nordic geologists in Argentina; Carl Caldenius and other links between the Nordenskjöld expedition and recent Argentine-Swedish cooperation in Quaternary geology; 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; Swedish glaciological work around the Weddell Sea during the last century.
Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary marine and terrestrial vertebrates from James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula: A reviewAn appraisal of the report by Einar Lönnberg (1905) on fishes collected by the Swedish South Polar Expedition; Botany during the Swedish Antarctic expedition 1901-1903; Ozone and UV-B irradiances over Antarctica in the last decades; Salt-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, Göteborg-December 2nd, 1903, Buenos Aires). Its scientific production and historical implicationsPart 2: Human Sciences; Pioneers of scientific cooperation: About memory, oblivion and representations of the past; South Polar imaginations and geopolitical realities -- Contextualising Otto Nordensjöld's scientific internationalism and its limits; Open horizons: A trek through Otto Nordenskjöld's many landscapes.
Pemmican 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 Nordenskjöld Expedition 1901-1903; Sea nomads of the Beagle Channel and surrounding areas.
Summary This book includes a selection of the most significant contributions presented at the international symposium held in Argentina in March 2003. The meeting commemorated the Nordenskjöld's expedition, Swedish-Argentine early scientific fieldwor.
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Subject Svenska sydpolar-expeditionen (1901-1903) -- Congresses.
Svenska sydpolar-expeditionen (1901-1903)
Nordenskjöld, Otto, 1869-1928 -- Travel -- Antarctica -- Congresses.
Nordenskjöld, Otto, 1869-1928.
Travel.
Antarctica.
Scientific expeditions -- Antarctica -- Congresses.
Scientific expeditions.
Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Swedish -- Congresses.
Discoveries in geography.
Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Argentina -- Congresses.
Argentina.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Rabassa, Jorge.
Borla, María Laura.
Added Title Antarctic Peninsula and Tierra del Fuego
Other Form: Print version: Antarctic Peninsula & Tierra del Fuego. London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, ©2007 0415413796 9780415413794 (DLC) 2006028788 (OCoLC)71241952
ISBN 9780203945698 (electronic book)
0203945697 (electronic book)
9780415413794
0415413796
0415413796 (Cloth)
9786610734917
6610734917