Hitler's Antarctic base: the myth and the reality

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Summerhayes, Colin, Beeching, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2007
• Subjects: Arctic; Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; Argentina; Queen Maud Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740600578x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224740600578X

In January-February 1939, a secret German expedition visited Dronning (or Queen) Maud Land, Antarctica, apparently with the intention inter alia of establishing a base there. Between 1943 and 1945 the British launched a secret wartime Antarctic operation, code-named Tabarin. Men from the Special Air...