New Swabia (Norwegian and German: Neuschwabenland) was an area of Antarctica explored and briefly claimed by Nazi Germany within the Norwegian territorial claim of Queen Maud Land in early 1939.

2018年7月27日 · But one small chapter in Hitler’s drive for new land is often overlooked: how the Third Reich’s hunger for margarine led to a secret expedition to Antarctica more than 85 years ago.

2018年10月28日 · He proposed that the Schwabenland, a German ship that sailed to Antarctica in 1938, had set up a base there. British and American military action in the area fed the conspiracy theories, and when the United States detonated three nuclear bombs in the area in the 50s, speculation ran wild.

2010年7月23日 · At the beginning of 1939, a Nazi expedition explored a hitherto uncharted area of the Antarctic. By foot and plane, the Nazis surveyed an area between latitudes 69°10’ S and 76°30’ S and longitudes...

2024年11月25日 · Brad Olsen, a leading world explorer, has revealed startling new documents showing how Nazi Germany established at least two bases in Antarctica during and immediately after World War 2. The documents show passports for Nazi personnel traveling to Base 211 in New Schwabenland, and also a New Berlin base in the vicinity of the South…

2017年2月1日 · On 17 December 1938, the New Swabia Expedition left Hamburg for Antarctica aboard MS Schwabenland. The expedition was organized by Alfred Ritscher, a decorated World War I naval commander. The secret expedition had 33 members plus Schwabenland’s crew of 24.

2024年3月28日 · New Swabia (Norwegian and German: Neuschwabenland) is a cartographic name sometimes given to an area of Antarctica between 20°E and 10°W in Queen Maud Land, which is claimed as a Norwegian dependent territory under the Antarctic Treaty System.

2018年7月15日 · In 1939, a Nazi German expedition reached New Swabia on a ship named Schwabenland. That’s how the territory got its name. In reality, my Antarctica-bound ship was not headed for New Swabia.

It was explored in 1939 by the crew of the MS Schwabenland of the Third German Antarctic Expedition who set out secretly on 17 December 1938 from Hamburg with the goal of establishing a German whaling base in Antarctica for the newly made German whaling fleet.

2019年6月24日 · What wonders did the German Kriegsmarine find during its Antarctica Expedition 1938-1939 in the territory of the projected National Socialist colony of Neuschwabenland (New Swabia Land)? Click here for the original journey memoir book.