José María Sobral
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Alférez de Navío José María Sobral was an Argentine explorer, geologist, naval officer and author who rose to prominence by participating in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition becoming the first Argenti
Jose Maria Sobral 1905
Sobral (left) and Nordenskjöld
Antarctic (ship)
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Antarctic was a Swedish steamship built in Drammen, Norway, in 1871. She was used on several research expeditions to the Arctic region and to Antarctica from 1893 to 1903. In 1895 the first confirmed
José María Sobral
…1930 before returning to Argentina to work at YPF. Sobral was born in Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos. He joined the Swedish Antarctic Expedition on the ship Antarctic in Buenos Aires at the end of 1901, when the group headed by Otto Nordenskjöld asked the Argentine Government for supplies, to perform a series of…
Antarctic in Tromsø harbor, 1898
Antarctic trapped in pack ice
Antarctic sinking