CHRISTIAN HJORT, ÓLAFUR INGÓLFSSON AND Straddling the Drake Passage: A summary of Otto Nordenskjöld’s and his geological co-worker’s achievements in Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Peninsula

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CHRISTIAN HJORT, ÓLAFUR INGÓLFSSON AND Straddling the Drake Passage: A summary of Otto Nordenskjöld’s and his geological co-worker’s achievements in Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Peninsula

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ABSTRACT

This brief summary of the main geological results from Otto Nordenskjöld’s expeditions, one to each side of the Drake Passage, is based on two recently published overviews; one on the pre-Quaternary geology1 and one on the Quaternary, mainly the glaciation history.2