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Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV.
New Swabia (Norwegian and German: Neuschwabenland) was an area of Antarctica explored and briefly claimed by Nazi Germany within the Norwegian territorial claim of Queen Maud Land in early 1939. The region was named after the expedition's ship, Schwabenland , itself named after the German region of Swabia .
The MS Schwabenland, circa 1938. New Swabia was an area of land claimed by Nazi Germany in the Norwegian Queen Maud Land claim. [7] It was explored in 1939 by the crew of the MS Schwabenland of the Third German Antarctic Expedition who set out secretly on 17 December 1938 from Hamburg with the goal of establishing a German whaling base in Antarctica for the newly made German whaling fleet.
Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight territorial claims in Antarctica.These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observation and study facilities within their respective claimed territories; however, a number of such facilities are located outside of the area claimed by their ...
Germany eventually attempted to claim the territory surveyed by Ritscher under the name New Swabia, [3] but lost any claim to the land following its defeat in the Second World War. [26] [note 4] On 14 January 1939, five days prior to the German arrival, Queen Maud Land was annexed by Norway, [18] by royal decree: [17]
The evaluation of the results in western New Swabia was interrupted by World War II and a large part of the 11,600 oblique aerial photographs were lost during the war. In addition to the images and maps published by Ritscher, only about 1100 aerial photos survived the war, but these were only rediscovered and evaluated in 1982.
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Nazi Germany claimed the territory of New Swabia in Antarctica, sent an expedition there in 1938, and planned others. [ 21 ] Nazi Germany conducted research into advanced propulsion technology, including rocketry , Viktor Schauberger's engine research, Horten flying wing craft , and the Arthur Sack A.S.6 experimental circular winged aircraft.