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Alférez de Navío José María Sobral (Navy
Sub-Lieutenant - born in on
April 14,
1880 in
Gualeguaychú,
Entre Ríos, died on
April 14,
1961 in
Buenos Aires) 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 Nordenskjöld 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 expedition to spend a second winter on Snow Hill Island, with no communication with the mainland or the
Antarctic party, which was stranded and spent the winter in rough shelter on
Paulet Island. A year later the Argentine corvette
Uruguay rescued the survivors, including the Argentine officer.
Upon return to Argentina Sobral left the army and went to
Sweden to study geology at the
Uppsala University, where he doctored in 1913. In 1906 he married Swedish Elna W. Klingström, with whom he'd have 9 children.
In 1914 he returned to Argentina, working as National Director of Mining and Hydrology until 1924. In 1930 he was named Argentine consul in
Norway, but returned to Argentina a year later to work for Argentine national oil company
YPF. He retired in 1935, but continued travelling around Argentina and giving geology lectures until his death in 1961, coincidentally on his birthday.
Sobral wrote a number of books on the Army,
Argentina-Chile relations, Geology, and his Antarctic adventure. He is considered the father of the
Argentine Antarctica, and a national hero.
The Argentine summer
Base Alférez de Navío Sobral was built in 1965 and is located at 81°05' S, 40°00' W, in
Edith Ronne Land facing the
Filchner Ice Shelf. It supported the Argentine Army's overland expedition to the South Pole in 1965. A stamp bearing Sobral's image and Snow Hill Island is Argentina Scott #1070, 1975.
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