Articles | Volume 90, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/polf-90-39-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/polf-90-39-2022
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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Cited articles

Annalen: Annalen der Hydrographie und Maritimen Meteorologie, 1, Table 3, 1883. 
Auwers, A. V.: Die Venusdurchgänge 1874 und 1882, Bd. 3, Die Beobachtungen der Expeditionen von 1882, Reichsdruckerei, Berlin, 1888. 
Barr, W.: The expeditions of the First International Polar Year, 1882–83, Arctic Institute of North America, Calgary, 2008. 
Barr, S. and Lüdecke, C.: South Georgia, in: The History of the International Polar Years (IPYs), edited by: Barr, S. and Lüdecke, C., From Pole to Pole, Vol. 1, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 54–58, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12402-0_3, 2010. 
Bucher, G.: Die Spur des Abendsterns: die abenteuerliche Erforschung des Venustransit, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 2011. 
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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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