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THE use of palynology to investigate the ancient floras of antarctic and subantarctic regions and to aid in explaining the present distribution of the living florula has been largely ignored. Auer1 made use of pollen analysis to describe the fluctuations of forest and steppe vegetation in Tierra del Fuego in postglacial time. Cookson2 described the pollen occurring in the tertiary lignites of the Kerguelen Archipelago. So far as I am aware, no workers have undertaken similar studies in any other part of this zone.
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BUNT, J. Living and Fossil Pollen from Macquarie Island. Nature 177, 339 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177339a0
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