CHAQ2020 - Seymour Island - Drawings ... : CHAQ2020 - Seymourön - Ritningar ...

• Main Author: Almevik, Gunnar
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: University of Gothenburg 2021
• Subjects: Antarctica; Antarktis; Antarctic region; Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904; Första svenska Antarktisexpeditionen, 1901-1904; Nordenskjöld, Otto, 1869-1928; History and Archaeology; Historia och arkeologi; Humanities and the Arts; Humaniora och konst; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarktis*; Otto Nordenskjöld; Paulet Island; Seymour Island; Snow Hill Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5878/0qyf-ra32; https://snd.se/catalogue/dataset/2020-149-1

The first Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903), led by Otto Nordenskjöld, sailed to Antarctica on the ship Antarctic captained by CA Larsen, and established a research station on Snow Hill Island. There six members overwintered and performed paleontological, meteorological, geomagnetic and geological studies, while the rest of the expedition set sail for South Orkney. After the winter, on the way back to Snow Hill Island, the Antarctic got stuck in the ice and sank. At this point, the expedition members were divided into three groups. One of these overwintered an extra year on Snow Hill Island, whereas the other two groups were forced to build stone huts in order to overwinter at Hope Bay and Paulet Island. An Argentinean vessel, the Corbeta Uruguay, rescued the expedition in November 1903. CHAQ 2020 is an Argentinean-Swedish project with fieldwork in the area around the Antarctic Peninsula aiming to investigating and documenting the historical remains of the first Swedish South Polar expedition under ... : Syftet med forskningsprojektet var att dokumentera lämningarna efter Otto Nordenskjölds Antarktisexpeditionen 1901-1903. Materialet består av fotografier, planer, ritningar, 3d-modeller och drönarfilmer från Snow Hillön, Hoppets vik och Seymourön. Denna katalogpost samlar de ritningar som skapades på Seymourön. Se den engelska beskrivningen för mer information. Skissen av Nordensköldexpeditionens båt skapades med hjälp av traditionella metoder. ...