Description |
1 online resource (xv, 214 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Nordenskjöld, Otto, 1869-1928 -- Travel -- Antarctica -- Congresses
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Nordenskjöld, Otto, 1869-1928 fast |
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Svenska sydpolar-expeditionen (1901-1903) -- Congresses
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Svenska sydpolar-expeditionen (1901-1903) fast |
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Scientific expeditions -- Antarctica -- Congresses
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TRAVEL.
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Discoveries in geography -- Argentine
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Discoveries in geography -- Swedish
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Scientific expeditions
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Travel
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Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Swedish -- Congresses
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Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Argentine -- Congresses
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Antarctica
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Rabassa, Jorge.
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Borla, María Laura.
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ISBN |
9780203945698 |
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0203945697 |
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9780415413794 |
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0415413796 |
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