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International Cooperation in Antarctica 1901–1904

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It took some years after the first International Polar Year (1882–1883) until magnetic measurements were coordinated in the Commission for Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity, within the International Meteorological Committee from 1891. The investigation of the magnetic field of the earth became one of the most important goals of the leading nations, which invested a lot of money in the establishment of magnetic observatories at home and in their colonies.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Lüdecke (2003).

  2. 2.

    Lüdecke (2007a, b).

  3. 3.

    Markham (1986) (posthum).

  4. 4.

    Keltie and Mill (1896:780).

  5. 5.

    Markham (1986) (posthum).

  6. 6.

    Bidlingmaier (1901).

  7. 7.

    Bruce (1901:466).

  8. 8.

    Birkeland (1908, 1913).

  9. 9.

    Neumayer (1901:454).

  10. 10.

    Scott (1905, vol. I:191).

  11. 11.

    Drygalski (1989:157f).

  12. 12.

    Chree (1909).

  13. 13.

    Meinardus und Mecking (1911:11 pp.).

  14. 14.

    Meinardus and Mecking (1915).

  15. 15.

    Meinardus (1916:329).

  16. 16.

    Meinardus (1909).

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Acknowledgement

My thanks go to Volker Gazert (Partenkirchen) for the use of the picture of the balloon ascent in Antarctica (Fig. 5.3).

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Lüdecke, C. (2010). International Cooperation in Antarctica 1901–1904. In: Barr, S., Luedecke, C. (eds) The History of the International Polar Years (IPYs). From Pole to Pole. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12402-0_5

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