The Antarctic Fueguía by Enrique Delachaux. Austral geographic barrier or bridge?

Abstract

Enrique Augusto Samuel Delachaux is one of the few South American geographers who dealt -he wrote- of Antarctica in the early twentieth century. Antarctica was a contribution of the volume of tribute of the Argentine Geographic Institute in 1904 to the expeditionaries of the corvette Uruguay who rescued the Swedish castaways led by Otto Nordenskjold and the Argentine Antarctic hero José María Sobral. In this study Delachaux exposes four fundamental questions, namely: the importance of expeditions to Antarctica, the similarity between Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Peninsula, the orographic chaining in the southern seas and that the Antarctic is a continent and not a sea with polar lands.