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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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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Center for History of Science and Technology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Short summary
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.
During the First International Polar Year (1882–1883) Germany set up a meteorological and...