The the first forwarding German in the Antarctic (1901 - 1903), was a forwarding led in the Antarctic by Erich von Drygalski, a professor of Géologie and veteran of the Arctique, aboard ship Gauss .

Travel

Drygalski led the first German forwarding to the South pole on board the Gauss to explore an unknown area of the Antarctic in the south of the islands Kerguelen. Forwarding started from Kiel at the summer 1901.

Forwarding

A small team remained stationed on the islands Kerguelen, while the most important part of the crew began more in the south. Erich von Drygalski made a stopover on the island Heard and was the first scientifically to describe of it the Géologie, the Flore and the fauna.

In spite of the trap of ice which had been closed again on them for 14 month as from February 1903, forwarding discovered new territories of the Antarctic: the Kaiser Wilhelm II Land and the Volcano Gaussberg.

Drygalski was the first man to use a balloon with hot air in the Antarctic.

Return

Forwarding unloaded with Kiel in November 1903. Erich von Drygalski wrote the account of forwarding then and published the important collected scientific data. Between 1905 and 1931, it did not publish any less than 20 volumes and 2 atlases.

Bibliogaphy

Erich von Drygalski, The German South Whodunnit Forwarding, 1901-3 , Erskine Near, 1991,

External bonds

• South-Pole.com

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