Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands

South Georgia, at present governed as a Dependency of the Falkland Islands, has an interesting history of human activity extending back nearly two centuries. The sealers who visited the island in considerable numbers in the 18th and 19th centuries (Jones, 1973) almost certainly left gangs of men on the island for considerable periods, but not until the 20th century were permanent settlements established there. Published accounts of the initial stages of this colonisation (Matthews, 1931; Christie, 1951) contain various important errors, and give only the simplest outline of an interesting political problem. A more accurate account of some of these events has recently been published (Tonnessen and Johnsen, 1982). Material preserved in the Falkland Islands Government's (FIG) archives at Port Stanley has allowed a detailed account to be built up of this important period of South Georgia's history.

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Performance-based validation of the human activity profile

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e548052012-620 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Luci Fuscaldi Teixeira-Salmela ◽

Sandra J. Olney ◽

Revathy Devaraj

Keyword(s):

Human Activity ◽

Activity Profile

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Individual Human Activity Systems: Proposed Model for Life Planning and Change

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e633902010-001 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Elaine R. Parent

Keyword(s):

Human Activity ◽

Activity Systems ◽

Life Planning ◽

Proposed Model ◽

Individual Human

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Ice-free area expansion compounds the non-native species threat to Antarctic terrestrial biodiversity

10.32942/osf.io/fbzm5 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Grant Duffy ◽

Jasmine R Lee

Keyword(s):

Human Activity ◽

Native Species ◽

Climate Scenario ◽

Climatic Environment ◽

Species Establishment ◽

Suitable Habitats ◽

Terrestrial Biodiversity ◽

A Site ◽

Area Expansion ◽

Free Area

Warming across ice-covered regions will result in changes to both the physical and climatic environment, revealing new ice-free habitat and new climatically suitable habitats for non-native species establishment. Recent studies have independently quantified each of these aspects in Antarctica, where ice-free areas form crucial habitat for the majority of terrestrial biodiversity. Here we synthesise projections of Antarctic ice-free area expansion, recent spatial predictions of non-native species risk, and the frequency of human activities to quantify how these facets of anthropogenic change may interact now and in the future. Under a high-emissions future climate scenario, over a quarter of ice-free area and over 80 % of the ~14 thousand km2 of newly uncovered ice-free area could be vulnerable to invasion by one or more of the modelled non-native species by the end of the century. Ice-free areas identified as vulnerable to non-native species establishment were significantly closer to human activity than unsuitable areas were. Furthermore, almost half of the new vulnerable ice-free area is within 20 km of a site of current human activity. The Antarctic Peninsula, where human activity is heavily concentrated, will be at particular risk. The implications of this for conservation values of Antarctica and the management efforts required to mitigate against it are in need of urgent consideration.

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Bartholomew Sulivan and early watercolours of Falkland Islands vegetation in the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.1986.13.2.155 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 155-163

Author(s):

D. M. MOORE ◽

M. J. P. SCANNELL

Keyword(s):

Falkland Islands ◽

Herbarium Specimens ◽

Botanic Gardens

Three hitherto undocumented watercolours in the possession of the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, are found to depict botanically interesting views of Falkland Islands' vegetation and an historically important painting of Port Louis about 1842, when it was the capital of the archipelago. From the evidence available it seems clear that these paintings were prepared by either Bartholomew J. Sulivan or his wife during a surveying voyage to the Falkland Islands in 1842–43, when he commanded the brig Philomel. Some associated herbarium specimens seem to have been collected by B. J. Sulivan during 1838 when he visited the Falkland Islands as Lieutenant aboard the surveying ketch Arrow.

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Science Regained [1962]

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474412094.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Pierre Aubenque

Keyword(s):

Human Activity ◽

Human Cognition ◽

Human Thought ◽

Motion Time ◽

First Philosophy

Pierre Aubenque’s “Science Regained” (1962; translated by Clayton Shoppa) was originally published as the concluding chapter of Le Problème de l’Être chez Aristote, one of the most important and original books on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. In this essay, Aubenque contends that the impasses which beset the project of first philosophy paradoxically become its greatest accomplishments. Although science stabilizes motion and thereby introduces necessity into human cognition, human thought always occurs amidst an inescapable movement of change and contingency. Aristotle’s ontology, as a discourse that strives to achieve being in its unity, succeeds by means of the failure of the structure of its own approach: the search of philosophy – dialectic – becomes the philosophy of the search. Aubenque traces this same structure of scission, mediation, and recovery across Aristotelian discussions of theology, motion, time, imitation, and human activity.

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