Members of the Wegener's trial expedition.

• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1929
• Subjects: Greenland; Loewe; Sorge; Fritz Loewe; Fritz-Loewe
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/95461

Group of people including Fritz Loewe at front, turning to face the camera, sitting around a small table having tea. The group is seated outside the Western station on the Umanak Fjord. In 1929 Loewe accompanied Professor Alfred Wegener, pioneer of continental-drift theory, on his last Greenland expedition July 1930-August 1931. Wegener immediately set about organizing a trial expedition for the summer of 1929 to select a site for the western station and a route onto the inland ice. A site at the head of Umanak Fjord near 71°N was selected for the western station. Inscription: "(illegible) Umanak Sommer 1929". Names of people are Indentified however some are illegible. People include, Sorge, Wegener, Loewe, Kruger, Christianson and Koppel. Previous control number: BWP/26972 154686 Item: [1988.0160.00078] "Members of the Wegener's trial expedition."