Wilhelm Filchner (13 September 1877 – 7 May 1957) was a German army officer, scientist and explorer. He conducted several surveys and scientific investigations...
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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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edition Erlangen/Germany 1980. Read SATARA. Wilhelm Filchner: Life of a Researcher (chapter XXIII). Wilhelm Filchner was interned from September 1941 until...
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Ergänzungsheft. Reihe B. Deutsches Hydrographisches Institut. 1980. Wilhelm Filchner; Alfred Kling; Erich Przybyllok (1994). To the Sixth Continent: The...
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the exploration southward, joining Bruce's discovery to land which Wilhelm Filchner had discovered from the Deutschland in 1912. U.S. Geological Survey...
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also found and named Kaiser Wilhelm II Land. The second German Antarctic expedition (1911–1912) was led by Wilhelm Filchner with a goal of crossing Antarctica...
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Austrian scientist, alpinist and Antarctic explorer. He was a member of Wilhelm Filchner's Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–13, which failed in its attempt...
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The Second German Antarctic Expedition of 1911–1913 was led by Wilhelm Filchner in the exploration ship Deutschland. Its principal objective was to determine...
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Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, and named for Dr. Wilhelm Filchner, leader of the expedition. "Filchner Rocks". Geographic Names Information System. United...
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the German Antarctic Expedition of 1911–1912, led by Wilhelm Filchner. Upon discovery Filchner named the bay for Captain Richard Vahsel of the expedition...
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German explorer Wilhelm Filchner who had left Bremerhaven in May 1911; in December 1912, the news arrived from South Georgia that Filchner's expedition had...
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coat and is very fierce; the Bankhar attacks strangers mercilessly. Wilhelm Filchner gives an interesting account of a wild, big dog-monster the size of...
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aus 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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about the existence of this new land. In June 1912 the German explorer Wilhelm Filchner searched for but found no traces of land after his ship Deutschland...
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non-Russians including Ney Elias, George Littledale, the Earl of Dunmore, Wilhelm Filchner and Lord Curzon who was probably the first to reach the Wakhan source...
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successfully with her sealing duties in the Arctic, under Jorgensen. In 1909 Wilhelm Filchner began his preparations for the Second German Antarctic Expedition,...
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Expedition (1938–1939), led by Capt. Alfred Ritscher, and named for Wilhelm Filchner, leader of the German expedition to the Weddell Sea area in 1911–12...
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900°E / -66.450; 91.900. Cape Filchner is the division between Wilhelm II Coast and Queen Mary Coast. Cape Filchner was discovered by the Australian...
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from Xining in China's Qinghai province. It had been collected by Wilhelm Filchner during an expedition to China and Tibet in 1903–1905. Lupus karanorensis...
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Pole (90° S) 1911–1913 – Second German Antarctic Expedition – led by Wilhelm Filchner 1911–1914 – Australasian Antarctic Expedition – led by Douglas Mawson...
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suited for an arduous journey. At 24, Karl Wienert (an assistant of Wilhelm Filchner, a famous explorer) was the team's geologist. Also 24, Edmund Geer...
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charted by the Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, under Wilhelm Filchner, and named for Professor Erich von Drygalski, the leader of the First...
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monetary award with August Bier. 1877 1957 Professor Wilhelm Filchner German explorer and discoverer of the Luitpold Coast and the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf....
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pursuing this objective. On 11 December 1911, a German expedition under Wilhelm Filchner had sailed from South Georgia, intending to penetrate deep into the...
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and his childhood friend Gerhart Hauptmann, Wilhelm Bölsche, Max von Gruber, Agnes Bluhm, Wilhelm Filchner, Anastasius Nordenholz, and Ludwig Hermann Plate...
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in 1775, remapped by the Second German Antarctic Expedition under Wilhelm Filchner, 1911–12, and named for Captain Richard Vahsel, master of the expedition...
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Luitpold Coast (category Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf)
which is regarded as the eastern limit of the Filchner Ice Shelf. It was discovered by Wilhelm Filchner, leader of the Second German Antarctic Expedition...
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Moritz Ludwig Ettmüller (1802 – 1877 in Zürich), a German philologist. Wilhelm Filchner (1877–1957 in Zürich), explorer Peter Fischli (born 1952 in Zürich)...
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Kaiser Wilhelm II Land is a part of Antarctica lying between Cape Penck at 87° 43'E and Cape Filchner at 91° 54'E. Princess Elizabeth Land is located to...
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27 September 2008. Huntford (Shackleton biography), pp. 366–68 "Wilhem Filchner, 1877–1957". South-pole.com. Retrieved 28 September 2008. Mills, p. 129...
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