Antarctic Peninsula & Tierra del Fuego: 100 years of Swedish-Argentine scientific cooperation at the end of the world

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

Jorge Rabassa was born and educated in La Plata, Argentina where he got his degrees in Geology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum, University of La Plata. He did research on the Glacial Geology on James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula, between 1980 and 1982, in some of the same areas visited by the Nordenskjold Expedition of 1901-1903. He has visited the Antarctic Peninsula several times on board of Antarctic Cruises as Lecturer. He is currently a Principal Investigator of CONICET at CADIC, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina and a Professor of Geography at the University of Patagonia in Ushuaia. His main fields of interest are Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Maria Laura Borla was born in Buenos Aires where she graduated in Tourism. Since 1986 she has worked as a nature-oriented guide in Tierra del Fuego and has traveled to Antarctica aboard A.R.A. Bahia Paraiso in 1987-1989, visiting some of the over-wintering areas where the Swedish-Argentine expedition took place. She has carried out research on Nature-Oriented Tourism and got a Master's degree in this field and is the author of the book "Exploring Tierra del Fuego" (edited in Ushuaia in 2001, 2nd edition 2005), among other publications. She also works as a Spanish-English-French interpreter in Ushuaia.

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