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Murphy, D. T. (2002). German Exploration of the Polar World: A History, 1870–1940. Else Wegener & Fritz Loewe eds. Greenland journey, the story of Wegener's German expedition to Greenland in 1930-31 as told by members of the expedition and the leader's diary, translated by Winifred M. Deans. Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow, 1939
On a balloon ascent undertaken to carry out meteorological investigations and to test a celestial navigation method using a particular type of quadrant ("Libellenquadrant"), the Wegener brothers set a new record for a continuous balloon flight, remaining aloft 52.5 hours from 5–7 April 1906. [10]
Solar eclipse series sets from 1906 to 1909 Ascending node Descending node Saros Map Gamma Saros Map Gamma 115 July 21, 1906 Partial −1.3637 120 January 14, 1907 Total 0.8628 125 July 10, 1907 Annular −0.6313 130 January 3, 1908 Total 0.1934 135 June 28, 1908 Annular 0.1389 140 December 23, 1908 Hybrid −0.4985 145 June 17, 1909 Hybrid 0. ...
In 1929 Wegener would return to Greenland for the German Greenland Expedition. The Danske Islands were given their name by John Haller during the 1956–1958 Expedition to East Greenland led by Lauge Koch, in order to pay due homage to the authoritative work of the 1906–08 Denmark expedition. [8]
But A. Wegener did not have the specialisation to correctly weight the quality of the geophysical data and the paleontologic data, and its conclusions. Wegener's main interest was meteorology, and he wanted to join the Denmark-Greenland expedition scheduled for mid 1912. So he hurried up to present his Continental Drift hypothesis. [2]
A second problem was that Wegener's estimate of the speed of continental motion, 250 cm/year (100 in/year), was implausibly high. [34] (The currently accepted rate for the separation of the Americas from Europe and Africa is about 2.5 cm/year (1 in/year).) [35] Furthermore, Wegener was treated less seriously because he was not a geologist. Even ...
The Zeppelin LZ 4 was a German experimental airship constructed under the direction of Ferdinand von Zeppelin.First flown on 20 June 1908, it made a series of successful flights including a 12-hour flight over Switzerland.
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.