Wettertrupp Haudegen: the last German Arctic weather station of World War II. Part 1

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Barr, William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1986
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Svalbard; Greenland; Norway; Finn; Nordaustlandet; Rijpfjorden; Wahlenbergfjorden; Finn Malmgrenfjorden; Wordiebukta; Iceland; Polar Record; Rijpfjord*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400028333; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400028333

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...