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 Nordenskjöld 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. María 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. Bahía Paraíso 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.

Preface

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 review
An 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 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 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 exploration
To remember and restore the Argentine rescuers of the Nordenskjöld Expedition 1901-1903
Sea nomads of the Beagle Channel and surrounding areas