Members of the Wegener's trial expedition.
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 exp...
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ftumelbournedc:oai:jupiter.its.unimelb.edu.au:11343/95461 2023-05-15T16:28:37+02:00 Members of the Wegener's trial expedition. 1929 http://hdl.handle.net/11343/95461 unknown http://hdl.handle.net/11343/95461 Pictures--Photographs--Photographic prints 1929 ftumelbournedc 2021-12-26T15:32:38Z 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." Other/Unknown Material Greenland The University of Melbourne: Digitised Collections Greenland Loewe ENVELOPE(67.717,67.717,-70.533,-70.533) Sorge ENVELOPE(-67.694,-67.694,-67.181,-67.181) Fritz Loewe ENVELOPE(141.567,141.567,-66.992,-66.992) Fritz-Loewe ENVELOPE(141.567,141.567,-66.992,-66.992) |
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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." |
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