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Historical perspective of Otto Nordenskjöld's Antarctic penguin fossil collection and Carl Wiman's contribution
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-07)
The early explorer and scientist Otto Nordenskjöld, leader of the Swedish South Polar Expedition of 1901-1903, was the first to collect Antarctic penguin fossils. The site is situated in the northeastern region of Seymour ...
Aggregation of mummified adult crabeater seals (Pinnipedia: Phocidae) in the eastern Antarctic Peninsula: age and sex structure, taphonomy and cause of death
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-12)
In Antarctica, crabeater seals tend to strand as immature animals with disorientation, due to their inexperience, given as the probable cause. In 2012 and 2013, we examined a group of 80 mummified crabeater seals on Seymour ...
Eocene Antarctica: a window into the earliest history of modern whales
(Advances in Polar Science, 2019-08)
The Eocene-Oligocene Southern Ocean is thought to have played a major role in cetacean evolution. Yet, fossils from its heart – Antarctica – are rare, and come almost exclusively from the Eocene La Meseta and Submeseta ...
Gastroliths associated with an Aristonectes specimen (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae), López de Bertodano Formation (upper Maastrichtian) Seymour Island (Is. Marambio), Antarctic Peninsula
(Elsevier, 2014-01)
The occurrence of a large gastrolith set associated with a specimen referred to Aristonectes sp. is reported here for the first time. The specimen MLP 89-III-3-1 comes from Seymour Island (Is. Marambio), Antarctic Peninsula, ...
Caribbean Report 20-12-1995
(The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1995-12-20)
This report highlights the mourning of Dame Nita Barrow in the region and beyond. Dame Nita was the sister of Barbados' first Prime Minister Errol Barrow and was appointed Governor-General of Barbados in 1990 following an ...