 Seymour Island has been referred to as the Rosetta Stone of Antarctic palaeontology, due to the unparalleled insight it provides into the geological and palaeontological history of the continent.In December 1892 when Norwegian Captain, Carl Anton Larsen landed his ship, the "Jason", on Seymour Island, he returned with more than maps of the territory, he found fossils of long-extinct species.Larsen's trip aboard the "Jason" was significantly more successful than his Swedish Antarctic Expedition journey between 1901 and 1904.