Sedimentary basins on the east flank of the Antarctic Peninsula: proposed nomenclature

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Del Valle, R.A., Elliot, D.H., Macdonald, D.I.M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1992
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Ross Island; Seymour; Seymour Island; Elliot; Nordenskjöld; Bibby; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica; James Ross Island; Otto Nordenskjöld
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/519091/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102092000695

The first fossils from Antarctica were collected from Seymour Island in December 1892, during the voyage of the Jason under Captain C.A. Larsen. The Swedish South Polar Expedition of 1901–1903, led by Otto Nordenskjöld, proved that there were extensive deposits of fossiliferous Cretaceous and Tertia...