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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 map was drawn by the aircraft mechanic Franz Preuschoff and is as such referred to as the "Preuschoff map". This map was incorporated in the 1939 1: 10,000,000 scale map of Antarctica by Australian cartographer E. P. Bayliss. A reference to the expedition was posted in the Berlin Zoological Garden in front of the Emperor penguin enclosure ...
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.
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Blurred intentionally on Bing Maps. [15] Rendered in lower resolution on Google Maps and Mapquest. Heliport [16] in El Ejido: Spain: Square blurred on Google and Bing. Visible e.g. in HERE WeGo and Yandex.
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