Alfred Wegener and his Greenland expeditions. Collections of the Alfred Wegener Archive, Bremerhaven

• Main Author: Voss-Diestelkamp, Jutta
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Alfred Wegener Institute; Greenland; GRIP; Ice cap; ice core; Scoresbysund
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/3234/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.13817

AbstractAlfred Wegener gave the name to the German Institute of Polar Research that was founded in Bremerhaven in 1980. Although he understood the need for bi-polar research (conducted by the Institute nowadays), he himself only participated in Arctic research. He was a member of four expeditions to...