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Wilhelm Filchner (1877-1957)
Zum Sechsten Erdteil. Die Zweite Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition. Berlin: Verlag Ullstein, 1922. Large 8° (26.5 x 18.2 cm.). 2 folding maps (1 lithographic and printed in three colours), plates, 1 folding, illustrations. (Neat repair to one map.) Original cloth-backed boards (neatly recased with modern endpapers).
The German South Polar Expedition of 1911-1912 was led by Filchner, aboard the Deutschland under the command of Richard Vahsel (who died on 8 August 1912) and Alfred Kling. The expedition 'Visited South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands; at the former investigated the coasts aboard Undine [a sealing steamer], prepared charts and re-opened the observatory at Royal Bay... Continued south to Luitpold Coats and charted part of the south coast of the Weddell Sea; discovered the Filchner Ice Shelf. Deutschland was beset and drifted in pack ice for nine months; a winter sledge journey proved the non-existence of Benjamin Morrell's 'New South Greenland'. reported in 1823. Visited South Georgia a second time after getting free of ice.' (Headland 1451). Conrad p.196; cf. Spence 457 & 458.
Zum Sechsten Erdteil. Die Zweite Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition. Berlin: Verlag Ullstein, 1922. Large 8° (26.5 x 18.2 cm.). 2 folding maps (1 lithographic and printed in three colours), plates, 1 folding, illustrations. (Neat repair to one map.) Original cloth-backed boards (neatly recased with modern endpapers).
The German South Polar Expedition of 1911-1912 was led by Filchner, aboard the Deutschland under the command of Richard Vahsel (who died on 8 August 1912) and Alfred Kling. The expedition 'Visited South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands; at the former investigated the coasts aboard Undine [a sealing steamer], prepared charts and re-opened the observatory at Royal Bay... Continued south to Luitpold Coats and charted part of the south coast of the Weddell Sea; discovered the Filchner Ice Shelf. Deutschland was beset and drifted in pack ice for nine months; a winter sledge journey proved the non-existence of Benjamin Morrell's 'New South Greenland'. reported in 1823. Visited South Georgia a second time after getting free of ice.' (Headland 1451). Conrad p.196; cf. Spence 457 & 458.
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