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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 .
As the area was first explored by a German expedition, the name New Swabia and German names given to its geographic features are still used on many maps. Some geographic features mapped by the expedition were not named until the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE) of 1949–1952, led by John Schjelderup Giæver .
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.
He said the purposes of the visit were to claim Norway's possessions in Antarctica, as well as to learn more about the climate research at Troll, which he said was key to better understanding of global climate change. [8] [42] In 2015, King Harald V became the world's first reigning monarch to visit Antarctica when he went to Queen Maud Land. [43]
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 ...
Alfred Ritscher (23 May 1879 in Bad Lauterberg – 30 March 1963 in Hamburg) was a German polar explorer.A Kapitän zur See in the Kriegsmarine, he led the third German Antarctic Expedition in 1938–39, which mapped the New Swabia (German: Neuschwabenland) territories of Queen Maud Land.
This list of Antarctica expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving ... German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939), (New Swabia claimed for Nazi ...
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.