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Articles | Volume 90, issue 2
Articles | Volume 90, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/polf-90-39-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/polf-90-39-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 90, issue 2
Report for the polar community
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04 Nov 2022
Report for the polar community |  | 04 Nov 2022

140 years ago: the German station at South Georgia (South Atlantic) of the First International Polar Year (1882–1883)

Cornelia Lüdecke

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During the First International Polar Year (1882–1883) Germany set up a meteorological and magnetic station at South Georgia in the South Atlantic, where the transit of Venus in front of the Sun on 6 December 1882 could also be observed. After the return of the expedition the station decayed over the decades. Today only some relics remain. The paper wants to encourage an archeological investigation to learn more about the social life of the station members.
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