Abstract
THE Wegener expedition to Greenland in 1930 planned to maintain a meteorological observatory on the ice sheet in the heart of the country. The volume before us is the story of how this task was achieved. Transport from the coast, some two hundred and fifty miles away, broke down, but the work at the central station was not interrupted although the party, and at times Dr. Georgi alone, lived in a hole in the ice. They had food, but little else. Here in diary form is the frank record of life under those dreary conditions. Wegener himself lost his life on a journey to the coast; but the expedition has important results. Few of these, however, are given in this general volume, which has its interest chiefly in showing what man can endure in the cause of scientific discovery.
Mid-Ice: the Story of the Wegener Expedition to Greenland
Johannes
Georgi
By. Translation (revised and supplemented by the Author) by F. H. Lyon. Pp. xiv + 247 + 24 plates. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1934.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Mid-Ice: the Story of the Wegener Expedition to Greenland. Nature 136, 533 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136533c0
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