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	Wilhelm Filchner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wilhelm Filchner (September 13, 1877 - May 7, 1957) was a German explorer.
		Filchner never returned to Antarctica, but went on many journeys through Nepal and Tibet, including a geographic survey of Nepal in 1939.
		Filchner died at the age of 80 in Zurich, Switzerland.
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	Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Filchner ice shelf is nourished primarily by the Slessor Glacier, the Recovery Glacier, and the Support Force Glacier, all located east of Berkner Island].
		The east part of this shelf was discovered in January-February 1912 by the German Antarctic Expedition under Wilhelm Filchner.
		Filchner named the feature for Kaiser Wilhelm, but the Emperor requested it be named for its discoverer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Filchner-Ronne_Ice_Shelf (390 words)

	Wilhelm Filchner -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wilhelm Filchner (September 13, 1877 - May 7, 1957) was a (A person of German nationality) German explorer.
		Filchner never returned to Antarctica, but went on many journeys through (A small landlocked Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and China) Nepal and (An Asian country under the control of China; located in the Himalayas) Tibet, including a geographic survey of Nepal in 1939.
		Filchner died at the age of 80 in (The largest city in Switzerland; located in the northern part of the country) Zurich, (A landlocked federal republic in central Europe) Switzerland.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/W/Wi/Wilhelm_Filchner.htm (404 words)

	AWI: History of polar research - Wilhelm Filchner
		Wilhelm Filchner, a geographer and geodesist, undertook voyages of research that took him above all to the countries of Central Asia.
		From 1982-1998 the Filchner Station of the Alfred Wegener Institute was operated there, a summer station used for studies in ice shelf dynamics.
		As the ice shelf broke in 1998, the station began to drift and had to be dismantled during the summer campaign of 1998/99.
	www.awi-bremerhaven.de /AWI/geschichte/filchner.html (197 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: Wilhelm Filchner
		Wilhelm Filchner was born in Bayreuth, Germany on September 13, 1877.
		Filchner's original plans were for one ship to enter the Weddell Sea while a second would enter the Ross Sea.
		Filchner reasoned that the disaster occurred due to a spring tide, coupled with a sharp drop in barometric pressure.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000103.htm (1957 words)

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		Wilhelm Filchner (1877-1957), a Bavarian First Lieutenant, formulated the next Antarctic challenge.
		When at last Filchner sighted the coastline, which is fronted by the shelf ice later to be named after him and until then unknown, he believed he had success on his side.
		Filchner had originally wanted to sail the Deutschland to South Georgia, so as to be able to overwinter at the whaling station there.
	www.oneworldmagazine.org /focus/southpole/hist6.htm (441 words)

	AWI: Ships, stations, aircraft - Filchner Station
		The Filchner Station, opened in 1982, was situated in the southern Weddell Sea on one of the largest ice shelves in the Antarctic (470,000 km2).
		It was named after Wilhelm Filchner, geographer and leader of Germany's second South Pole Expedition (1911/12).
		The containers comprising the Filchner Station were on stilts, and provided accommodation for up to twelve researchers and technicians.
	www.awi-bremerhaven.de /Polar/filchner.html (283 words)

	Wilhelm Filchner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born in Bayreuth, Germany, Wilhelm Filchner's first expedition was to Russia, at the age of 21.
		Filchner named the region Prince Regent Luitpold Land (today it is known as the Luitpold Coast), and he named the ice cliff after Kaiser Wilhelm, but the name later changed to the Filchner Ice Shelf.
		Filchner spent the time during and after World War II in India, and on 7 May 1957, at the age of 80, he died in Zurich.
	www.70south.com /resources/history/explorers/filchner (225 words)

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		Elkton, Ky. He was admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1853.
		...Gesenius, Wilhelm, (vil´helm gaza´nyoos) (KEY), 1786-1842, German Orientalist, one of the greatest Hebrew and biblical scholars.
		...Filchner, Wilhelm, (vil´helm filkh´nr) (KEY), 1877-1957, German explorer, geophysicist, and travel writer.
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	Filchner Ice Shelf -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		More than 500 feet (150 m) thick and extending inland for more than 520 miles (840 km), it lies immediately west of Filchner Ice Shelf, from which it is partially separated by Berkner Island.
		It extends about 300 miles (500 km) from Filchner Ice Shelf (southwest) to Queen Maud Land (east) and includes the coasts of Luitpold and Caird.
		It was discovered in 1904 by the Scottish explorer William Speirs Bruce while on an investigation of the Weddell Sea and was named for the expedition's...
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	Wilhelm Filchner -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In 1900 Filchner crossed the Pamirs, the mountainous region of central Asia now chiefly within Tajikistan, and he made an expedition to Tibet in 1903–05.
		Perhaps the major German Romantic conductor of the 20th century, Wilhelm Furtwängler is remembered primarily for his long association with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, which lasted, except for two brief interludes, from 1922 until his death.
		The founder of experimental psychology was the German philosopher, physiologist, and psychologist Wilhelm Wundt.
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	Chapter 16. The first Swiss and Japanese expedition. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wilhelm Filchner (Switzerland) had great plans: he wanted to cross the Antarctic continent to see if it was one piece of land.
		It was later removed from the maps, because Filchner found that there was only water under the ice (so, technically, it wasn’t land).
		Wilhelm Filchner realised that he had had enough from Antarctica and therefore never went back.
	www.70south.com /resources/history/chapters/chapter16 (733 words)

	Arctic: German exploration of the polar world: a history, 1870-1940 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Gauss became beset in the fast ice even before it had crossed the Antarctic Circle, and hence contributed little to the exploration of the continent, but it amassed a vast amount of scientific data.
		Filchner succeeded in reaching the southern limits of the Weddell Sea and discovered the Filchner Ice Shelf.
		However, largely because of bad luck and some unfortunate decisions, he was unable to get a foothold on the continent, although (unlike Nordenskiold's Antarctic and Shackleton's Endurance) the Deutschland survived a wintering adrift in the ice of the Weddell Sea.
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	Weddell Sea
		Weddell Sea, arm of the Atlantic Ocean, W Antarctica, SE of South America, bordered by the Antarctic Peninsula and Coats Land.
		The vast Ronne and Filchner ice shelves are at the head of the sea.
		Wilhelm Filchner - Filchner, Wilhelm, 1877–1957, German explorer, geophysicist, and travel writer.
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	Histoire Antar/FR/Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The hopes were all the more fervent that the still undiscovered regions were vast and that the discovery of new technologies would succeed in feeding the craziest of dreams.
		Its objective was to verify whether there was a continent between the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea or rather an immense channel of frozen water.
		Arrived in the Weddell Sea, they discovered the coastal promontory, which today bears the name of the Filchner Ice Shelf, and they built a hut from which they were to set off on ski-treks towards the South.
	www.antarctica.org /UK/Envirn/pag/antar_history/pag/drames3.htm (2253 words)

	Antarctic Postal History: 1910-14
		Mail from the Second German Antarctic Expedition, under the command of Wilhelm Filchner, posted by Alfred Kling (who would become ship captain upon death of Captain Vahsel) at South Georgia, 10 December 1911, using expedition straight-line cachets to strike the expedition ship vignette.
		During the last three months of 1911, the crew of the DEUTSCHLAND, led by Wilhelm Filchner, visited Grytviken, South Georgia.
		Because of the depletion of stamp stocks at South Georgia, Postmaster E.B. Binney acted in accordance with his authority and franked about 2,000 pieces of mail with an improvised handstamp during 1911.
	www.south-pole.com /aspp104.htm (514 words)

	AllRefer.com - Wilhelm Filchner (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
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		Wilhelm Filchner[vil´helm filkh´nur] Pronunciation Key, 1877–1957, German explorer, geophysicist, and travel writer.
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	Powell's Books - German Exploration of the Polar World: A History, 1870-1940 by David Thomas Murphy
		German Exploration of the Polar World is the exciting story of the generations of German polar explorers who braved the perils of the Arctic and Antarctic for themselves and their country.
		Such intrepid adventurers as Wilhelm Filchner, Erich von Drygalski, and Alfred Wegener are not as well known today as Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen, Ernest Shackleton, Robert E. Peary, or Richard E. Byrd, but their bravery and the hardships they faced were equal to those of the more famous polar explorers.
		In the half-century prior to World War II, the poles were the last blank spaces on the global map, and they exerted a tremendous pull on national imaginations.
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		(Almanac - People) Hoyt Wilhelm Age: 79 knuckleball pitcher, who in 1985 became the first relief pitcher elected to...
		(Encyclopedia) Roux, Wilhelm, 1850–1924, German anatomist, a founder of experimental embryology.
		(Encyclopedia) Filchner, Wilhelm, 1877–1957, German explorer, geophysicist, and travel writer.
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	South through the Pole - Tidbits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The German explorer, Wilhelm Filchner organised an expedition to see whether the Ross and Weddell seas were separated by a land bridge or by frozen seas.
		But no sooner was his equipment unloaded on to the ice shelf, it began to break up.
		Ousland went from Berkner Island to the Ross Sea, covering 2845 km in 64 days, without fresh supplies.
	www.antarctica.org /FR/Expes/Expes_Antarctiques/1997_1998/Sttp_9798/1997/tidbits/bits.html (475 words)

	History
		- 21.Feb. - land sighted - named "Kaiser Wilhelm II Land"
		1910 - Filchner crosses the Spitzbergen ice-cap as a rehearsal for his Antarctic expedition
		- 23.- 30.June - Filchner, Kling and König search in vain for
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