Climate fluctuations during the past two millennia as recorded in sediments from Maxwell Bay, South Shetland Islands, West Antarctica

2010 ◽  
Vol 344 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. Hass ◽  
G. Kuhn ◽  
P. Monien ◽  
H.-J. Brumsack ◽  
M. Forwick
Keyword(s):  
South Shetland Islands ◽  
West Antarctica ◽  
Climate Fluctuations ◽  
Shetland Islands ◽  
The Past ◽  
Maxwell Bay

Glaciomarine sedimentation and palaeo-glacial setting of Maxwell Bay and its tributary embayment, Marian Cove, South Shetland Islands, West Antarctica

1997 ◽  
Vol 140 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 265-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ho Il Yoon ◽  
Myung Woo Han ◽  
Byong-Kwon Park ◽  
Jae-Kyung Oh ◽  
Soon-Keun Chang
Keyword(s):  
South Shetland Islands ◽  
West Antarctica ◽  
Shetland Islands ◽  
Maxwell Bay

Chapter 7.1 Deception Island

2021 ◽  
pp. M55-2018-56
Author(s):  
A. Geyer ◽  
D. Pedrazzi ◽  
J. Almendros ◽  
M. Berrocoso ◽  
J. López-Martínez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ground Deformation ◽  
South Shetland Islands ◽  
Deception Island ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Volcanic Unrest ◽  
Origin And Evolution ◽  
Shetland Islands ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Disciplines

AbstractDeception Island (South Shetland Islands) is one of the most active volcanoes in Antarctica, with more than 15 explosive eruptive events registered over the past two centuries. Recent eruptions (1967, 1969 and 1970) and volcanic unrest episodes in 1992, 1999 and 2014–15 demonstrate that the occurrence of future volcanic activity is a valid and pressing concern for scientists, logistic personnel and tourists that are visiting or are working on or near the island. Over the last few decades, intense research activity has been carried out on Deception Island to decipher the origin and evolution of this very complex volcano. To that end, a solid integration of related scientific disciplines, such as tectonics, petrology, geochemistry, geophysics, geomorphology, remote sensing, glaciology, is required. A proper understanding of the island's evolution in the past, and its present state, is essential for improving the efficiency in interpreting monitoring data recorded during volcanic unrest periods and, hence, for future eruption forecasting. In this chapter, we briefly present Deception Island's most relevant tectonic, geomorphological, volcanological and magmatic features, as well as the results obtained from decades of monitoring the island's seismic activity and ground deformation.

Antarctic Archaeology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Zarankin ◽  
Melisa A. Salerno
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
South Shetland Islands ◽  
Shetland Islands ◽  
The Past ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Over Time

Antarctica was the last continent to be known. Human encounters with the region acquired different characteristics over time. Within the framework of dominant narratives, the early ‘exploitation’ of the territory was given less attention than late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ‘exploration’. Nineteenth-century exploitation was especially associated with sealing on the South Shetland Islands. Dominant narratives on the period refer to the captains of sealing vessels, the discovery of geographical features, the volume of resources obtained. However, they do not consider the life of the ordinary sealers who lived and worked on the islands. This chapter aims to show the power of archaeology to shed light on these ‘invisible people’ and their forgotten stories. It holds that archaeology offers a possibility for reimagining the past of Antarctica, calling for a revision of traditional narratives.

scholarly journals Benthic molluscs collected in Western Antarctica during the “Caldas”, “Admiral Padilla” and “Admiral Campos” expeditions, southern summers 2014-2015, 2016-2017 and 2018-2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (SuplEsp) ◽  
pp. 187-212
Author(s):  
Adriana Osorno ◽  
Jaime Cantera
Keyword(s):  
Taxonomic Diversity ◽  
South Shetland Islands ◽  
West Antarctica ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Shetland Islands ◽  
History Of ◽  
Abundant Taxon ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
Taxonomic Categories ◽  
Coastal Research

This research is part of the results of the three first expeditions of Colombia to West Antarctica and it focused on the systematics and taxonomic diversity of the benthic community of molluscs collected between 5 and 400 m deep. The Sampling sites where mollusks were collected were located along the Gerlache and Bransfield straits, around the Palmer Archipelago and the South Shetland Islands, adjacent to the Antarctic Peninsula. The list of identified species that are deposited in the Museum of Marine Natural History of Colombia - Makuriwa, of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Research “José Benito Vives de Andréis” -Invemar, is presented. This inventory consisted of 15 specimens distributed in 10 taxa, of which 7 were shelled gastropods (including 5 microgastropods) and 3 were bivalves. Four microgastropods were placed in greater taxonomic categories due to the low knowledge of these taxa in the region (Anatoma sp., Cingulopsoidea sp., Truncatelloidea sp. and Eatoniella sp.). The other gastropod species (3) were Margarella antarctica, Prosipho turritus and Nacella concinna. The bivalves found were Philobrya sublaevis, Adacnarca nitens and Thracia meridionalis. The identified species have previously been recorded in West Antarctica. Some of them, like the bivalves, show a circumantarctic distribution. Nacella concinna was the most abundant taxon. In coherence with the general objective of the “BioGerlache-Antarctica” project, the results generate contributions to the biological inventories of Antarctica, contributing to expand the information to define possible conservation areas in the future.

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