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

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 Nordenskjld 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. Mara 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. Baha Paraso 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 Masters 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.

Preface Part 1. Natural History The work of Nordic geologists in Argentina Carl Caldenius and other links between the Nordenskjld expedition and recent ArgentineSwedish cooperation in Quaternary geology Straddling the Drake Passage. A summary of Otto Nordenskjlds and his geological co-workers 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 review An appraisal of the report by Einar Lnnberg (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, Gteborg-December 2nd, 1903, Buenos Aires). Its scientific production and historical implications Part 2. Human Sciences Pioneers of scientific cooperation. About memory, oblivion and representations of the past South Polar imaginations and geopolitical realities Contextualising Otto Nordensjlds scientific internationalism and its limits Open horizons: A trek through Otto Nordenskjlds many landscapes Pemmican and penguin-breast, but no pie. Daily problems of Polar explorers during the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration To remember and restore the Argentine rescuers of the Nordenskjld Expedition 1901-1903 Sea nomads of the Beagle Channel and surrounding areas