Larsen’s cairn: the birth of a new historical site in Antarctica

• Published in: Polar research Vol. 44; pp. 1 - 5
• Main Authors: Fontana, Pablo Gabriel, Guerriere, María Angélica
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Spånga Open Academia 01.08.2025; Norwegian Polar Institute
• Subjects: heroic age; Historic buildings & sites; Historic sites; historical site and monument; hsm 94; Ice; Islands; Multiship expeditions; operation tabarin; Paleontology; sobral; Whaling; whaling history; Seymour Island; Argentina; Antarctica; Weddell Sea; Antarctic Peninsula; Norway

This article describes the history of Larsen’s cairn, one of the oldest historical sites in Antarctica, and explains how it became one of the most recently declared Historical Site and Monuments (HSMs) on the continent. Norwegian explorer and whaler Carl Anton Larsen constructed the cairn on Marambi...