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Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin on 1 November 1880, the youngest of five children, to Richard Wegener and his wife Anna. His father was a theologian and teacher of classical languages at the Joachimsthalschen Gymnasium [ 6 ] and Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster .
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Queen Louise Land and neighbouring areas NASA picture. Alfred Wegener in the Borg station during the 1912-1913 winter.. The Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land, also known as the Danish expedition to Queen Louise Land and straight through Greenland’s ice sheet (Danish: Danske ekspedition til Dronning Louises Land og tværs over Nordgrønlands indlandsis), as well as Danish North Greenland ...
The German Greenland Expedition (German: Deutsche Grönlandexpedition), also known as the Wegener Expedition, was an expedition to Greenland in 1930–1931. It was led by German scientist Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), who had previously taken part in two other ventures to Greenland.
Sea_salt-e_hg.svg: Hannes Grobe, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany; SVG version by Stefan Majewsky; Other versions: Raster image,German version, French version, Catalan version, Russian version, Czech version
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He named it after German scientist Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), who had taken part in the 1906–08 Danmark Expedition and the 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land led by J.P. Koch. Wegener died in 1930 on the Greenland ice sheet during the Wegener Expedition led by himself. [1]
Ernst Sorge was a member of Alfred Wegener's expedition. Together with Johannes Georgi he stayed in Eismitte from July 1930 to August 1931. Fritz Loewe stayed from October 1930 to May 1931. Sorge hand-dug a 15 m deep pit adjacent to his subterranean snow cave, which served as living quarters during the seven-month-long overwintering.