Wilhelm Filchner (13 September 1877 – 7 May 1957) was a German army officer, scientist and explorer. He conducted several surveys and scientific investigations...

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...

the exploration southward, joining Bruce's discovery to land which Wilhelm Filchner had discovered from the Deutschland in 1912. U.S. Geological Survey...

the German Antarctic Expedition of 1911–1912, led by Wilhelm Filchner. Upon discovery Filchner named the bay for Captain Richard Vahsel of the expedition...

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...

Ergänzungsheft. Reihe B. Deutsches Hydrographisches Institut. 1980. Wilhelm Filchner; Alfred Kling; Erich Przybyllok (1994). To the Sixth Continent: The...

edition Erlangen/Germany 1980. Read SATARA. Wilhelm Filchner: Life of a Researcher (chapter XXIII). Wilhelm Filchner was interned from September 1941 until...

The Second German Antarctic Expedition of 1911–1913 was led by Wilhelm Filchner in the exploration ship Deutschland. Its principal objective was to determine...

Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, and named for Dr. Wilhelm Filchner, leader of the expedition. "Filchner Rocks". Geographic Names Information System. United...

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...

Austrian scientist, alpinist and Antarctic explorer. He was a member of Wilhelm Filchner's Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1913, which failed in its...

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...

successfully with her sealing duties in the Arctic, under Jorgensen. In 1909 Wilhelm Filchner began his preparations for the Second German Antarctic Expedition,...

pursuing this objective. On 11 December 1911, a German expedition under Wilhelm Filchner had sailed from South Georgia, intending to penetrate deep into the...

James Hopwood Jeans (died 1946), English mathematician. September 13 – Wilhelm Filchner (died 1957), German explorer. October 21 – Oswald Avery (died 1955)...

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...

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...

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...

aus den Sammlungen des Herrn Wilhelm Filchner". In Filchner, W. (ed.). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Expedition Filchner nach China und Tibet 1903---05...

charted by the Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, under Wilhelm Filchner, and named for Professor Erich von Drygalski, the leader of the First...

18 – Henry Norris Russell (born 1877), American astronomer. May 7 – Wilhelm Filchner (born 1877), German explorer. May 13 – Michael Fekete, (born 1886)...

"should not be rejected until absolutely disproved." By this time both Wilhelm Filchner and Ernest Shackleton, in their respective ice-bound ships, had drifted...

monetary award with August Bier. 1877 1957 Professor Wilhelm Filchner German explorer and discoverer of the Luitpold Coast and the 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...

The region would not be visited again until 1911, when Wilhelm Filchner discovered the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. Weddell returned north and sheltered at...

Pole (90° S) 1911–1913 – Second German Antarctic Expedition – led by Wilhelm Filchner 1911–1914 – Australasian Antarctic Expedition – led by Douglas Mawson...

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...

Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1941) 1877 – Wilhelm Filchner, German-Swiss explorer (d. 1957) 1877 – Stanley Lord, English captain...

27 September 2008. Huntford (Shackleton biography), pp. 366–68 "Wilhem Filchner, 1877–1957". South-pole.com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2011...

in 1775, remapped by the Second German Antarctic Expedition under Wilhelm Filchner, 1911–12, and named for Captain Richard Vahsel, master of the expedition...