The cold temperate zone in Chilean seas

The results of the Lund University Chile Expedition in 1948-49 throw some light upon the delimitation and ecology of the cold temperate areas in the Chilean seas, and therefore it seems justified to present a very brief summary to the present meeting. The expedition was organized by Professor Hans Brattström and myself and worked in Chile for almost one year from September 1948 to August 1949. We mainly concentrated upon marine work and collected samples in various localities along the whole Chilean coast from Arica to Tierra del Fuego. Our main base, however, was in Puerto Montt in about 41½° S and most of our work was carried out in the waters around the Island of Chiloé, between Puerto Montt in the north and the Chonos Islands in the south, i. e. just in the area where the border between the northern warm temperate and the southern cold temperate or antiboreal zoogeographical regions is supposed to lie. The working-up of our collections is still far from complete. The published records now comprise about 2000 pages, another 300 to 400 are in print and many reports are in preparation.