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Jose Maria Sobral
Alferez de Navio Jose Maria Sobral was an Argentine military scientist and Antarctic explorer.
Sobral joined the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in Buenos Aires at the end of 1901, when the group headed by Otto Nordenskjold asked the Argentine Government for supplies, to perform a series of meteorological, biological geological and geodesical studies.
The expedition arrived to Snow Hill Island at the Weddell Sea in 1902, where they were to spend one winter.
But the ship that was to return to pick them up, the Antarctic, under command of Captain Carl Larsen, was crushed by the ice and sank, leaving the ...
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