scholarly journals II.—The Antarctic Fishes of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition

1913 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Tate Regan
Keyword(s):  
Fish Fauna ◽  
Antarctic Fish ◽  
The South ◽  
South Georgia ◽  
Antarctic Fishes ◽  
Victoria Land ◽  
Antarctic Expedition ◽  
South Shetlands ◽  
The Antarctic

Our knowledge of the Antarctic fish-fauna has greatly increased during the last ten years. The Belgian expedition to Graham Land (1897–1899) was followed by that of the Southern Cross to Victoria Land (1898–1900), fitted out by Sir George Newnes. Next were the British expedition of the Discovery to Victoria Land and Edward Land (1901–1904), the German voyage of the Gauss to Kerguelen and Willhelm Land (1901–1903), and Nordenskjöld's Swedish expedition to South Georgia, the South Shetlands, and Graham Land. Then came the voyage of the Scotia to the South Orkneys and Coats Land (1902–1904), and Charcot's expeditions to the Palmer Archipelago and Graham Land in the Français. (1904–1905) and the Pourquoi Pas? (1908–1910), and finally Shackleton's expedition (1908–1909).

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1943–46

Polar Record ◽  
1946 ◽  
Vol 4 (32) ◽  
pp. 372-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Wordie
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Falkland Islands ◽  
The South ◽  
South Georgia ◽  
Antarctic Continent ◽  
South Shetlands ◽  
South Sandwich Islands ◽  
The One ◽  
The Antarctic

The Falkland Islands Dependencies are divided into two main groups; the one consisting of South Georgia with its important whaling stations together with the South Orkneys and the South Sandwich Islands, and the other of the South Shetlands and the Graham Land peninsula. Coats Land and other large land areas in the Antarctic continent itself are also included. The Dependencies were the first part of Antarctica to be brought under British control, and are defined in Letters Patent of 1908 and 1917.

II.—The Baleen Whales of the South Atlantic

1915 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
William Turner
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
South Atlantic Ocean ◽  
The South ◽  
Baleen Whales ◽  
South Georgia ◽  
South Shetlands ◽  
The Antarctic

Whaling companies have for some years successfully conducted a whale fishery off the shores of the South Shetlands, Graham Land, South Orkneys, and South Georgia, where the waters of the Antarctic mingle with the South Atlantic Ocean.

The Bellingshausen-Palmer meeting

Polar Record ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 644-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rip Bulkeley
Keyword(s):  
Antarctic Peninsula ◽  
South Shetland Islands ◽  
The South ◽  
Shetland Islands ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
Balanced Assessment ◽  
Absolute Certainty ◽  
South Shetlands ◽  
The Antarctic

ABSTRACTThe celebrated meeting between Captain Bellingshausen of the Imperial Russian Navy and the American sealing skipper Nathaniel Brown Palmer, off the South Shetland Islands in February 1821, has often been described by following just one or other of the two men's divergent and in some respects irreconcilable accounts. The most contentious issue is whether or not Palmer told Bellingshausen about the existence of a body of land to the south of the South Shetlands, known today as the Antarctic Peninsula. This note attempts to reach a balanced assessment of the matter by examining evidence from both sides, including several previously unconsidered items. It concludes that, although the truth will never be known with absolute certainty, the basic American account is more plausible, by the narrowest of narrow margins, than the Russian.

The Occurrence of Glossopteris in the Beacon Sandstone of Ferrar Glacier, South Victoria Land

1928 ◽  
Vol 65 (7) ◽  
pp. 323-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. N. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
South Pole ◽  
Fossil Plants ◽  
The South ◽  
Geological Age ◽  
Victoria Land ◽  
Antarctic Expedition

The presence of members of the Glossopteris flora in Antarctica was first attested by the material collected from Mount Buckley by Dr. Wilson and Lieut. Bowers on Capt. Scott's last expedition to the South Pole. and the now famous specimens were described by Professor A. C. Seward (1914). Traces of fossil plants in Antarctica, were, however, first discovered by Mr. H. T. Ferrar, a member of the National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–1904, and were briefly described by Arber (1907), who reported, on some specimens from the Ferrar Glacier, that “several of these show fair-sized carbonaceous impressions or markings, which in all probability are of vegetable origin”. The evidence presented by this unpromising material did not “permit of any opinion as to the botanical nature or affinities of the fossils themselves, nor of the geological age of the beds in which they occur” (Arber, 1907, p. 48). Professor Seward examined the specimens and agreed with this conclusion (1914, p. 2).

Cytogenetic diversity in the Antarctic plunderfishes (Notothenioidei: Artedidraconidae)

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 805-814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Ghigliotti ◽  
Thomas J. Near ◽  
Sara Ferrando ◽  
Marino Vacchi ◽  
Eva Pisano
Keyword(s):  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Genomic Organization ◽  
Diploid Number ◽  
Fish Fauna ◽  
Ribosomal Genes ◽  
Species Relationship ◽  
Victoria Land ◽  
Species Specific ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
New Evidence

AbstractAntarctic plunderfishes (Notothenioidei, Artedidraconidae) are important components of the Southern Ocean fish fauna. As a contribution to the Victoria Land Transect Project, we performed a cytogenetic analysis of six species from three of the four artedidraconid genera,Artedidraco glareobarbatus,A. orianae,A. skottsbergi,A. shackletoni,Histiodraco velifer, andPogonophrynesp. We investigated the species-specific cytogenetic features and highlighted patterns of chromosomal evolutionary change using a molecular phylogeny based on mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Despite a conserved diploid number, some important karyotypic traits account for major differences among artedidraconid species. Specific cytogenetic features, including the chromosomal organization of ribosomal genes and the occurrence of sex chromosomes, are characteristics ofA. skottsbergi, making this species distinct among those studied. These chromosomal peculiarities are consistent with the phylogenetic hypothesis resolvingA. skottsbergias the sister lineage of all other Artedidraconidae. A karyological similarity was found betweenA. glareobarbatusandA. shackletoniconsistent with their inferred sister species relationship in the phylogeny. The results indicate that artedidraconids are not conservative in their genomic organization at the chromosomal level and provide new evidence for the degree of biological diversity in this notothenioid group.

scholarly journals III.—Polychæta of the family Nereidæ, collected by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902–1904).

1914 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. N. G. Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Falkland Islands ◽  
The South ◽  
Orkney Islands ◽  
The Family ◽  
Antarctic Expedition ◽  
South Orkney Islands ◽  
Chief Interest ◽  
The Antarctic

The collection of Nereidæ brought home by the Scotia proves to be of considerable interest. As other expeditions have indicated, the family is but poorly represented in the antarctic or sub-antarctic regions; and although a large number of specimens were collected at the South Orkney Islands, these have all proved to belong to one species, N. kerguelensis M'Int. No nereids were obtained at any of the deep-water stations farther south—the family being decidedly littoral in its range.The chief interest, however, lies in the material collected so assiduously throughout the vessel's wanderings. Six other species were obtained, including one from the Falkland Islands, hitherto undescribed.

scholarly journals Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. “Scotia” Collections. Collembola from the South Orkney Islands

1906 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 473-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
George H. Carpenter ◽  
William Evans
Keyword(s):  
Present Writer ◽  
Tierra Del Fuego ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Orkney Islands ◽  
Arctic Regions ◽  
Victoria Land ◽  
Antarctic Expedition ◽  
South Orkney Islands ◽  
The Antarctic

Our knowledge of Antarctic Aptera has been growing rapidly during the last few years, a number of species from remote southern regions having been described by Willem (1902) from the countries south of Patagonia explored by the Belgica, by Schaffer (1897) from Tierra del Fuego, by Enderlein (1903) from Kerguelen, and a single Isotoma by the present writer (1902) from South Victoria Land. We find in the Antarctic as in the Arctic regions that in our advance towards the most remote and inhospitable lands, where winged insects eease to be represented, the primitive Aptera are still found fairly numerous in species, and often multitudinous in individuals. A careful study of these small frail insects fully repays the naturalist, both on account of the interest of their structure and the light which their distribution throws on geographical problems.

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