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    29917 The Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf or Ronne–Filchner Ice Shelf is an Antarctic ice shelf bordering the Weddell Sea. The seaward side of the Filchner–Ronne...
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    regions, and led the Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–13. As a young military officer, Filchner gained an early reputation for dash and daring...
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  • The Filchner Rocks (54°42′S 35°44′W / 54.700°S 35.733°W / -54.700; -35.733) are a group of rocks, some of which are submerged, 4 nautical miles (7 km)...
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  • 72°3′S 7°40′E / 72.050°S 7.667°E / -72.050; 7.667 Filchner Mountains The Filchner Mountains (German: Filchnerberge) are a group of mountains 11 km...
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    China's Qinghai province. It had been collected by Wilhelm Filchner during an expedition to China and Tibet in 1903–1905. Lupus karanorensis by Matschie...
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    The second German Antarctic expedition (1911–1912) was led by Wilhelm Filchner with a goal of crossing Antarctica to learn if it was one piece of land...
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    field pursuing this objective. On 11 December 1911, a German expedition under Wilhelm Filchner had sailed from South Georgia, intending to penetrate deep...
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    1901–03 German Antarctic Expedition, Scott Polar Research Institute Wilhelm Filchner and the 1911–12 German Antarctic Expedition, Scott Polar Research Institute...
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    den Sammlungen des Herrn Wilhelm Filchner". In Filchner, W. (ed.). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Expedition Filchner nach China und Tibet 1903---05,...
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    Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two...
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    Wilhelm Filchner, a famous explorer) was the team's geologist. Also 24, Edmund Geer was selected as the technical leader to organize the expedition. A relatively...
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  • the coast of Queen Mary Land and 45 km (28 mi) north-northeast of Cape Filchner. The island has an area of 220 km2 (85 sq mi).[citation needed] Drygalski...
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    A23a is a large tabular iceberg which calved from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986. It was then stuck on the sea bed for many years but then started...
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    The Ross expedition was a voyage of scientific exploration of the Antarctic in 1839 to 1843, led by James Clark Ross, with two unusually strong warships...
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  • Cape Filchner is the division between Wilhelm II Coast and Queen Mary Coast. Cape Filchner was discovered by the Australian Antarctic Expedition (1911–1914)...
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    Shackleton's means. Bjorn was eventually acquired by German explorer Wilhelm Filchner and, renamed Deutschland, was used in his 1911–1913 voyage to the Weddell...
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  • Mountain in the Filchner Mountains of Queen Maud Land. It was plotted from surveys and from air photos by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–60)...
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    presence of land in this location was later confirmed, by the expeditions of Wilhelm Filchner (1911–1913) and Ernest Shackleton (1914–1917). In 1906 Bruce...
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  • who was a member of the scientific staff on Wilhelm Filchner's Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–13. After studies at Freiburg and receiving his...
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    The Great Northern Expedition (Russian: Великая Северная экспедиция) or Second Kamchatka Expedition (Russian: Вторая Камчатская экспедиция) was one of...
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  • The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition (1921–22) was Sir Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic project, and the final episode in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration...
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    1911–1913 – Second German Antarctic Expedition – led by Wilhelm Filchner 1911–1914 – Australasian Antarctic Expedition – led by Douglas Mawson 1914–1916...
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    The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881–1884 (a.k.a. the Greely Expedition) to Lady Franklin Bay on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic was led by...
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    Challenger expedition of 1872–1876 was a scientific programme that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography. The expedition was named...
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    Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration (category Antarctic expeditions)
    27 September 2008. "Wilhem Filchner, 1877–1957". South-pole.com. 2008. Retrieved 28 September 2008. "The Forgotten Expedition". Antarctic Heritage Trust...
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    This list of Arctic expeditions is a timeline of historic Arctic exploration and explorers of the Arctic. 1472: Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst mark the...
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  • Filchner Station was a German research station in the Antarctic. Administered by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, it was established...
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    (1908). "Über Chinesische Säugetiere". In Filchner, W. (ed.). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Expedition Filchner nach China und Tibet, 1903-1905. Berlin:...
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    The Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the...
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    The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by...
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