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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 .
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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.
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]
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.
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 ...
In the article on New Swabia it states that some think through a legal loophole the Third Reich still exists in New Swabia. Please provide a reference. Almost certainly the Final Settlement of 1990 excluded German claims to this region, if they ever existed after 25 May 1945. 131.123.169.63 14:14, 22 April 2008 (UTC) Francis Graham
Fictional characters from Swabia (4 P) H. History of Swabia (5 C, 21 P) S. Swabian German language (1 C, 4 P) U. Upper Swabia (26 P) Pages in category "Swabia"