ARCTICPROHLES / 83 The 1869 / 70 German North Polar Expedition In 1866 the German geographer and cartographer Au-
gust Petermann, enterpriser and promoter of several ex-peditions, to polar regions and to Africa among others, in a so-called "Proclamation to the German Nation " demanded German participation in the exploration of the north polar region (Petermann, 1866). Besides the scientific motivation...
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