CHAQ2020 - Seymour Island - Drawings
SND-ID: 2020-149-1. Version: 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/z6ch-m418
Is part of collection at SND: CHAQ 2020 - Cultural Heritage Antarctica
Download all files
Citation
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Gunnar Almevik
- University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation
Research principal
University of Gothenburg
- Centre for Digital Humanities
Description
The first Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903), led by Otto Nordenskjöld, sailed to Antarctica on the ship Antarctic captained by CA Larsen, and established a research station on Snow Hill Island. There six members overwintered and performed paleontological, meteorological, geomagnetic and geological studies, while the rest of the expedition set sail for South Orkney.
After the winter, on the way back to Snow Hill Island, the Antarctic got stuck in the ice and sank. At this point, the expedition members were divided into three groups. One of these overwintered an extra year on Snow Hill Island, whereas the other two groups were forced to build stone huts in order to overwinter at Hope Bay and Paulet Island. An Argentinean vessel, the Corbeta Uruguay, rescued the expedition in November 1903.
CHAQ 2020 is an Argentinean-Swedish project with fieldwork in the area around the Antarctic Peninsula aiming to investigating and documenting the historical remains of the first Swedish South Polar expedition under the leadership of Otto Nordenskjöld 1901-1903. The material was collected in January an
After the winter, on the way back to Snow Hill Island, the Antarctic got stuck in the ice and sank. At this point, the expedition members were divided into three groups. One of these overwintered an extra year on Snow Hill Island, whereas the other two groups were forced to build stone huts in order to overwinter at Hope Bay and Paulet Island. An Argentinean vessel, the Corbeta Uruguay, rescued the expedition in November 1903.
CHAQ 2020 is an Argentinean-Swedish project with fieldwork in the area around the Antarctic Peninsula aiming to investigating and documenting the historical remains of the first Swedish South Polar expedition under the leadership of Otto Nordenskjöld 1901-1903. The material was collected in January and February 2020.
This catalogue entry collects the drawings created at Seymour Island.
The drawings of the Nordensköld Expedition boat were carried out using traditional methods. Show less..
Data contains personal data
No
Language
Time period(s) investigated
1902-01-01 – 2020-02-10
Data format / data structure
Type of archaeological investigation
Watching brief, Archaeological field evaluation, Planning basis
Type of archaeological remains
Feature, Buildings, Settlement remnants, Building remains, Boat remains
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Antarctica
Geographic description: The documentation was gathered at Snow Hill Island, Seymour Island (Marambio), and Hope Bay.
Responsible department/unit
Centre for Digital Humanities
Contributor(s)
Dag Avango
- Luleå university of technology, Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences, Division of Social Sciences
Kati Lindström
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Philosophy and History, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment
Luleå University of Technology
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
University of Gothenburg
Dag Avango
- Luleå university of technology, Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences, Division of Social Sciences
Kati Lindström
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Philosophy and History, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment
Luleå University of Technology
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
University of Gothenburg
Swedish National Heritage Board
Commissioning organisation
Swedish National Heritage Board
Research area
History and archaeology (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Almevik, G., Avango, D., Contissa, V., Fontana, P., Lindström, K., & Westin, J. (2021). Built cultural heritage in Antarctica : remains and uses of the first Swedish SouthPolar expedition 1901–1903. Riksantikvarieämbetet. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:raa:diva-6230
URN:
urn:nbn:se:raa:diva-6230
ISBN:
978-91-7209-891-6
If you have published anything based on these data, please notify us with a reference to your publication(s). If you are responsible for the catalogue entry, you can update the metadata/data description in DORIS.
