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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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The Wegener Diaries: Original Document | Wegener Diaries
This page offers the complete diaries of Alfred Wegener—the source material for the online exhibition “The Wegener Diaries: Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice” by historian Christian Kehrt. The digitized pages are divided into the three expeditions and viewable via PDF-reader.