Antarctic Peninsula & Tierra del Fuego

1. The work of Nordic geologists in Argentina
2. Carl Caldenius and other links between the Nordenskjöld expedition and recent Argentine–Swedish cooperation in Quaternary geology
3. 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
4. Swedish glaciological work around the Weddell Sea during the last century
5. Late Cretaceous–Early Tertiary marine and terrestrial vertebrates from James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula: A review
6. An appraisal of the report by Einar Lönnberg (1905) on fishes collected by the Swedish South Polar Expedition
7. Botany during the Swedish Antarctic expedition 1901–1903
8. Ozone and UV-B irradiances over Antarctica in the last decades
9. Salt-marsh vegetation as biological indicator of increased solar UV-B radiation consequence of ozone global depletion
10. 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
11. Pioneers of scientific cooperation: About memory, oblivion and representations of the past
12. South Polar imaginations and geopolitical realities – Contextualising Otto Nordensjöld’s scientific internationalism and its limits
13. Open horizons: A trek through Otto Nordenskjöld’s many landscapes
14. Pemmican and penguin-breast, but no pie: Daily problems of Polar explorers during the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration
15. To remember and restore the Argentine rescuers of the Nordenskjöld Expedition 1901–1903
16. Sea nomads of the Beagle Channel and surrounding areas

This symposium, held in Argentina in March 2003, commemorates Otto Nordenskjöld’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 Antarctic Peninsula and the sub-Antarctic seas, and celebrates the fruitfulness of continuing Swedish-Argentinian scientific cooperation. The symposium and associated activities took place in the cities of Buenos Aires, La Plata and Ushuaia (Tierra del Fuego), and this book includes a selection of the most significant contributions presented at the meeting.