Documentation of Graf-Wilczek-Knoll

• Main Authors: Krause, Reinhard A, Grobe, Hannes, Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang, Mondzech, Juliane, Schenke, Hans Werner
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2007
• Subjects: ANT-XXIII/9; AWI_Paleo; File format; File name; File size; Graf-Wilczek-Knoll; HS; HydroSweep; Kerguelen Plateau; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI; Polarstern; PS69; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Barents Sea; Kerguelen; Neumayer; Graf Wilczek Knoll; Graf-Wilczek Knoll; IPY; Novaya Zemlya; Open Polar Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.615253; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.615253

During Leg ANT-XXIII/9 on the 31st March 2007 the German research vessel Polarstern mapped a significant bathymetric feature with its swath sonar system at the north-west margin of the Kerguelen Plateau. Due to the fact, that the feature was discovered just a month after the third IPY 2007/2008 has started, it was named after Graf Wilczek who, together with Carl Weyprecht, had promoted the first IPY. The undersea feature name proposal was officialy accepted by the GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) at its 20th meeting in late July and was added to the GEBCO Gazetteer of UFN (http://www.iho.shom.fr/COMMITTEES/GEBCO/SCUFN/scufn_intro.htm). ______________ Graf Hans Wilczek (Notation of the name from the book of Wilczek's daughter Elisabeth Kinsky- Wilczek). The Austrian naval hero Tegetthoff in 1871 planned an expedition to the southern hemisphere. The geophysicist G. Neumayer (1826-1909) already was selected as its chief scientist. Also the naval officer Carl Weyprecht (1838-1881) and the mountaineer Julius Payer (1841-1915) were to participate. Because of the sudden death of Tegettoff the project came to a halt and eventually was cancelled. By support of the well known geographer August Petermann (1822-1878) Weyprecht and Payer made a voyage into the Barents Sea which made them believe having seen the "open polar sea". An additional undertaking to confirm and to extend the find was obvious. At this stage of the affair count Hans Wilczek (1837-1922) got involved. He not only fostered a new expedition with a considerable sum of money, but he participated in commanding a support vessel to Novaya Zemlya. Wilczek managed to get home but the expedition vessel under Weyprecht's command became imprisoned in the pack for two years and at least had to be abandoned. After an adventurous trip back to civilisation Weyprecht changed his mind in what he considered the best way of polar research. Together with Wilczek in 1875 he started the promotion of international station-based polar exploration - the IPY ...