Evidence for continental drift and polar wandering

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1960
• Subjects: Patagonia; Kerguelen; New Zealand; Campbell Islands; Crozet Islands; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1960.0079; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.1960.0079

G. E. Du Rietz (Uppsala) The problems of plant distribution in the subantarctic islands may be illustrated by dot maps showing the total distribution of the genera Pleurophyllum (Antipodes, Campbell, Auckland and Macquarie Islands), Stilbocarpa (the same islands + the Snares, Stewart Island and adjacent islands, one island in the S. W. Fjord district of South Island of New Zealand), and Pringlea (Kerguelen, Heard, Crozet and Marion Islands), and the species Cotula plumosa (Antipodes, Campbell, Snares, Auckland, Macquarie, Kerguelen and Crozet Islands, printed in Du Rietz (1940*, p. 242)), Azorella selago (Macquarie, Heard, Kerguelen, Crozet, Marion and Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego and S. W. Patagonia, printed in Du Rietz (1940, p. 243)) and Rostkovia magellanica (Auckland and Campbell Islands, Tierra del Fuego and W. Patagonia, see Du Rietz (1940, p. 241)). In connexion with Professor Stephenson’s mentioning of Wegener’s theory of continental drift, the following sentences from Du Rietz (1940), pp. 255–56 are relevant: