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Scarcity in the Arctic: A Colonial Construct?
In European imagination the North Atlantic has been seen as a region on the far borders of civilization and marked by the contrasts of scarcity and plenty.
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Photograph: Alfred Wegener's propeller sled Schneespatz, 1930
Franz Kebl photographed the propeller sled Schneespatz, used in Alfred Wegener’s 1930 Greenland expedition.
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"Ice Cores and the Temporalities of the Global Environment"
Alessandro Antonello and Mark Carey examine how the practices involved in drilling, analyzing, discussing, and using ice cores for both science and broader climate or environmental policies and cultures take part in constituting the temporalities of the global environment.
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Alfred Wegener’s Greenland Diaries | Wegener Diaries
Covering four expeditions between 1906–1930, Alfred Wegener’s Greenland diaries are presented in an overview by historian Christian Kehrt.
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Biography of Alfred Wegener | Wegener Diaries
Historian Christian Kehrt presents a short biographical profile of geologist and polar explorer Alfred Wegener, with historic photographs. Wegener’s diaries from his three Greenland expeditions (1906–1931)—digitized, transcribed, and translated—are the focus of this Virtual Exhibition.
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Original Footage: Alfred Wegener’s German Greenland Expedition, 1930–1931 (1936) | Wegener Diaries
Commenting actual film footage from Alfred Wegener’s last Greenland expedition, literary historian Dorit Müller describes the content and context of this unique material.
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The Danmark Expedition, 1906–1908 | Wegener Diaries
This is a selection of original diary entries of German explorer Alfred Wegener, who participated in the “Danmark-Expedition” led by explorer Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (1872–1907) and is part of the virtual exhibition “The Wegener Diaries - Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice” authored by historian Christian Kehrt.
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The Danish North Greenland Expedition, 1912–1913 | Wegener Diaries
This is a selection of original diary entries of German explorer Alfred Wegener, who participated in the Danish North Greenland Expedition (1912–1913) and is part of the virtual exhibition “The Wegener Diaries - Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice” authored by historian Christian Kehrt.
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The German Greenland Expedition, 1930–1931 | Wegener Diaries
This is a selection of the original diary entries of German explorer Alfred Wegener’s last Greenland expedition in 1930 and is part of the virtual exhibition “The Wegener Diaries: Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice” authored by historian Christian Kehrt.
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Wegener Diaries - PDF Depot | Wegener Diaries
In 2013, Christian Kehrt published one of the Environment & Society Portal’s first virtual exhibitions, “The Wegener Diaries: Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice.” The exhibition was updated in March 2020 to make the exhibition responsive and archivable, with only minor changes to the presentation. This page contains links to PDFs of the original 2013 version of exhibition, scans of the original document, and selected transcribed and translated diary entries for archival purposes.