South Shetland Islands

Figure 6.1. Location of Jubany Station, King George Island, South Shetland Islands.

The biotic and abiotic samples were collected during the 1992-1993, 1993 1994, 1994-1995 and 1995-1996 austral summer seasons around Potter Cove, King George Island and South Shetland Islands (Figure 6.2). Samples collected during the mentioned austral summers included ... 

M. Inoue, Floristic notes on lichens in the Fildes peninsula of King George Island and Harmony Cove of Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands, The Antarctic, Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Polar Biology, 6 (1993), 106-120. 

Koiakowska, A., 1987, Lipids of some Antarctic animals of the Admiralty Bay (King George Island, South Shetland Islands), Pol. Polar Res., 8, 391. 

South Shetland Islands). Polish Polar Research 17, 203-211. 

Littlefair, M.J. The qnartz-pyrite rock of the South Shetland Islands, western Antarctic Peninsula. Econ. Geol., 73 1184-1189 1979 Vennum, W.R. Evaporite encrustations and yellow and green surficial salts from the Orville Coast and eastern Ellsworth Land. Antarctic J. US, 14(5) 22-23... 

Cox, C., R. Ciocanelea, and D.E. Pride. Genesis of mineralization associated with Andean intrusions, northern Antarctic Peninsnla region. Antarctic J. US, 15(5) 22-23 1981 Pride, D.E., S. Moody, and M. Rosen. Metallic mineralization. South Shetland Islands, Gerlache Strait, and Palmer Station. Antarctic J. US, 16(5) 13-14... 

Culbertson JB, Valiela 1, Olsen YS, Reddy CM (2008) Effect of field exposure to 38-year-old residual petroleum hydrocarbons on growth, condition index, and filtration rate of the ribbed mussel, Geukensia demissa. Environ Pollut 154 312-319 Curtosi A, Pelletier E, Vodopivez CL, Mac Cormack WP (2009) Distribution of PAHs in the water column, sediments and biota of Potter Cove, South Shetland Islands, Antmctica. Antarct Sci 21 329-339... 

Hanson, 1958 Kalb, 1970), and Usneafasciata 3,nd Himantormialugubris on the South Shetland Islands (Lindsay, 1971). Cladonia alpestris, C. impexa, and Other Cladinas prefer the opposite type of habitat (Ahti, 1961). Many of these relationships between lichens and the substrate are considered in detail by Brodo (Chapter 12). 

Lindner, J. (1915). Uber den Einflufigunstiger Temperaturen auf gefrorene Schimmelpilze (Zur Kenntnis der Kalteresistenz von Aspergillus niger). Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 55, 1-52. Lindsay, D. C. (1971). Vegetation of the South Shetland Islands. Br. Antarct. Bull. 25, 59. Lipman, C. B. (1936). Normal viability of seeds and bacterial spores after exposure to temperatures near the absolute zero. Plant Physiol 11, 201-205. 

The source mechanisms obtained are quite variable but consistent with the active tectonic processes and the complicated structure of the South Shetland Island region. The mechanisms around Elephant Island reflect the influence of the Elephant triple junction, with the intersection of the Shackleton Fracture Zone, the South Shetland Trench, and the South Scotia Ridge. In the forearc, north to the South Shetland Islands, the solutions obtained by Guidarelli and Panza (2006) seem to confirm the presence of active convergence along the South Shetland subduc-tion zone, while Plasencia (2006) evidences the presence of both transpressive and transtensive... 

John, B. S. Sugden, D. E., 1971. Raised marine features and phases of glaciation in the South Shetland Islands. - Brit. Antarct. Siuv., Bull., 24 45-111. 

Palliis, R., James, T. S., S bat, F., Vilaplana, J. M. Grant, D. R. (in press). Holocene uplift in the South Shetland Islands evaluation of tectonics and glacio-isostasy. - Proceed. VII Int. Sympos. Antarctic Earth Sci., 1995, Siena. 

Kloser, H., Mercuri, G., Latumus, F., Quartino, M. L., and Wiencke, C., On the competitive balance of macroalgae at Potter Cove (King George Island, South Shetlands), Pol. Biol., 14, 11, 1994. 

According to Baeza et al. (1994), the radioactive contamination of sea and land in the Antarctic regions derives from the fallout of atmospheric atomic explosions executed since 1945, apart from emissions made by nuclear and radioactive facilities. The authors examined samples of U. antartica collected near the Spanish Antarctic Base, Juan Carlos I, situated on Livingston Island in the South Shetland archipelago in... 

Fig. 1.2 James Weddell (1787-1834) and Matthew Brisbane were hunting seals in the South Shetland and South Orkney Islands in 1823 when they turned their ships south and sailed into a large embayment in the land mass of Antarctica now known as the Weddell Sea. They reached a point even farther south than Captain Cook when they decided to turn back. They were fortunate to have penetrated this far into the Weddell Sea and to have escaped unhurt because the pack ice in the Weddell Sea is notorious for trapping ships (Photo by the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, used here with permission)...

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