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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 /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Taylor & Francis,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.