Wettertrupp Haudegen: the last German Arctic weather station of World War II. Part 1
ABSTRACT During World War II the German Navy, trying to compensate for the loss of meteorological data from stations in Greenland, Iceland and other areas of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, established automatic weather stations, weather ships and manned weather stations in a zone stretching from L...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247400028333 2024-03-03T08:42:04+00:00 Wettertrupp Haudegen: the last German Arctic weather station of World War II. Part 1 Barr, William 1986 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400028333 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400028333 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 23, issue 143, page 143-158 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 1986 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400028333 2024-02-08T08:24:02Z ABSTRACT During World War II the German Navy, trying to compensate for the loss of meteorological data from stations in Greenland, Iceland and other areas of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, established automatic weather stations, weather ships and manned weather stations in a zone stretching from Labrador to Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa. In summer 1944 one of the last of the manned stations (code-named Haudegen ) was established on Svalbard at Wordiebukta, Rijpfjorden, Nordaustlandet. A party of 11, led by geographer Dr Wilhelm Dege, collected and transmitted weather data from 14 September 1944 to 5 September 1945; the party also explored and mapped the ice-free corridor extending south across Nordaustlandet to the head of Wahlenbergfjorden and much of the north coast from Kapp Loven east to Finn Malmgrenfjorden. After the German surrender in May 1945 the men of Haudegen found themselves apparently forgotten by Allied authorities in Norway, and began preparing for a second winter. They surrendered ultimately to the captain of the Norwegian sealer Blaasel on 4 September 1945, and were thus the last members of the German armed forces to surrender at the end of World War II. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland Iceland Nordaustlandet Polar Record Rijpfjord* Svalbard Cambridge University Press Arctic Svalbard Greenland Norway Finn ENVELOPE(12.739,12.739,65.935,65.935) Nordaustlandet ENVELOPE(22.400,22.400,79.800,79.800) Rijpfjorden ENVELOPE(22.188,22.188,80.165,80.165) Wahlenbergfjorden ENVELOPE(20.593,20.593,79.721,79.721) Finn Malmgrenfjorden ENVELOPE(24.606,24.606,80.306,80.306) Wordiebukta ENVELOPE(22.443,22.443,80.057,80.057) Polar Record 23 143 143 158 |
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ABSTRACT During World War II the German Navy, trying to compensate for the loss of meteorological data from stations in Greenland, Iceland and other areas of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, established automatic weather stations, weather ships and manned weather stations in a zone stretching from Labrador to Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa. In summer 1944 one of the last of the manned stations (code-named Haudegen ) was established on Svalbard at Wordiebukta, Rijpfjorden, Nordaustlandet. A party of 11, led by geographer Dr Wilhelm Dege, collected and transmitted weather data from 14 September 1944 to 5 September 1945; the party also explored and mapped the ice-free corridor extending south across Nordaustlandet to the head of Wahlenbergfjorden and much of the north coast from Kapp Loven east to Finn Malmgrenfjorden. After the German surrender in May 1945 the men of Haudegen found themselves apparently forgotten by Allied authorities in Norway, and began preparing for a second winter. They surrendered ultimately to the captain of the Norwegian sealer Blaasel on 4 September 1945, and were thus the last members of the German armed forces to surrender at the end of World War II. |
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Wettertrupp Haudegen: the last German Arctic weather station of World War II. Part 1 |
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Wettertrupp Haudegen: the last German Arctic weather station of World War II. Part 1 |
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Wettertrupp Haudegen: the last German Arctic weather station of World War II. Part 1 |
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