CHAQ2020 - Seymour Island - Spatial data

SND-ID: 2020-150

This study is part of the collection CHAQ 2020 - Cultural Heritage Antarctica

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Jonathan Westin - University of Gothenburg, Centre for Digital Humanities orcid

Gunnar Almevik - University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation orcid

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

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Language

English

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

University of Gothenburg

Responsible department/unit

Centre for Digital Humanities

Contributor(s)

Kati Lindström - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Philosophy and History, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment orcid

Dag Avango - Luleå University of Technology, Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences, Division of Social Sciences orcid

KTH Royal Institute of Technology rorId

Luleå University of Technology rorId

University of Gothenburg rorId

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Commissioning organisation

Swedish National Heritage Board

Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Time period(s) investigated

20th century – 21th century

1902-01-01 – 2020-02-10

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Antarctica

Geographic description: The documentation was gathered at Snow Hill Island, Seymour Island (Marambio), and Hope Bay.

Publications

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

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Type of archaeological investigation

Watching brief, Archaeological field evaluation, Planning basis

Dataset 1
CHAQ2020 - Seymour Island - Spatial data

Description

The 3d documentation of the four historical remains consists of structure-from-motion photography with a Fujifilm X-T2. As the remains of the boat were fragile and therefore difficult to stage in a way that prevented morphological changes between the two necessary photo sessions (thus preventing a merging of the two sides), the remains are published as two separate models; exterior and interior. The result is published as five point clouds and five textured meshes.

Version 1

Citation

Gunnar Almevik, Jonathan Westin. University of Gothenburg (2021). CHAQ2020 - Seymour Island - Spatial data. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1. https://doi.org/10.5878/s72b-1486

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Data format / data structure

Geospatial

3D

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Gunnar Almevik - University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation orcid

Jonathan Westin - University of Gothenburg, Centre for Digital Humanities orcid

Type of archaeological remains

Feature , Buildings , Settlement remnants , Building remains , Boat remains

License

Creative Commons  Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Dataset 2
CHAQ2020 - Seymour Island - Raw data

Description

The structure-from-motion documentation of the monuments consists of four complete sets of photographic raw data captured with a Fujifilm X-T2 on January 4-6, 2020. The remains of the boat were fragile and therefore difficult to stage in a way that prevented morphological changes between documenting the two sides. The photos were captured by Gunnar Almevik.

Version 1

Citation

Jonathan Westin, Gunnar Almevik. University of Gothenburg (2021). CHAQ2020 - Seymour Island - Raw data. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1. https://doi.org/10.5878/mjdt-9b46

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Data format / data structure

Still image

Geospatial

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Jonathan Westin - University of Gothenburg, Centre for Digital Humanities orcid

Gunnar Almevik - University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation orcid

Type of archaeological remains

Feature , Buildings , Settlement remnants , Building remains , Boat remains

License

Creative Commons  Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Published: 2021-03-02
Last updated: 2021-09-02