Als Georg Neumayer zum Hydrographen bei der neu gegründeten Kaiserlichen Admiralität berufen worden war, hatte er schon Kontakt zu Wilhelm Foerster, der maßgeblich die Gründung von wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen auf dem Potsdamer Telegraphenberg betrieb. Der Kontakt war anfangs sehr eng, wegen anderer Aufgaben Neumayers schränkten sich die Mögllchkeiten der Zusammenarbeit etwas ein.

In his diary, the carpenter Wilhelm Heinrich described the emerging tensions between some scientists, the ship's management and the sailors during the voyage of the second German Antarctic Expedition (1911) to Buenos Aires. Together with three additional travel accounts, a vivid picture of social conditions during the first leg of the voyage aboard the Deutschland emerges for the first time, about which Filchner's official voyage report says little.

Der Bericht beschreibt die Entdeckungsgeschichte der Antarktis seit dem 16. Jahrhundert, die von der Gründung der History of Antarctic Research Action Group innerhalb des Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research im Jahr 2004 gefolgt wird. 2011 zur Expert Group aufgewertet, ging die EG 2018 schließlich im Standing Committee on Humanities and Social Sciences auf. Es wird gezeigt, wie eine internationale Gruppe zusammenwächst, um die Geschichte der Antarktisforschung erfolgreich zu behandeln.

A conference was organised to prepare for an exhibition raising awareness of climate change, its consequences in the Arctic, and how much cultural heritage will be lost unless people start to act. An important issue debated was how to present Arctic people. It was argued that the balance between presenting Arctic people as resilient and stressing the current climate situation's seriousness and the big changes it brings to the ways of life and loss of heritage should be central to the exhibition.

The paper describes the development of a virtual reality environment of the British mining settlement Advent City on Svalbard based on historical and archaeological sources. In our paper we will discuss in detail the genesis of the 3D model as well as the virtual reality environment and afterwards discuss the benefit of such a digital world for disseminating the results of polar archaeological research to students and teachers at schools and universities and the interested public.