Co-author Summerhayes wrote a 2007 journal article spelling out how people have been confusing other military activity after World War II in the region with the earlier Nazi-commissioned expedition.
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Much of the expedition’s science was either lost during the war, or kept under wraps until it was finally published in 1958.Īlthough tales of secret Nazi bases or lost Antarctic colonies still populate the internet and make good TV fodder, there’s no evidence that Hitler had any further interest in the frozen continent after this expedition returned. Decades later, this line of volcanoes was found to be the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a region where two of the Earth’s tectonic plates are pulling apart and forming new sections of the seafloor. The ship’s scientists detected seismic activity that they believed was a line of volcanoes running north to south along the middle of the Atlantic. One the way home, the ship conducted scans of the seafloor along the Atlantic Ocean. The Schwabenland expedition didn’t last long, they completed their work and began the long trip home on February 5, 1939. The surveys covered more territory than the German homeland at the time. Still, these photographic surveys covered a huge part of Antarctica and increased the size of the known area by 16 percent, according to Lüdecke’s historical research. Those little swastikas were never recovered. That included boxes of the tiny metal swastikas, which were supposed to be dropped across that part of Antarctica to cement the Nazi territorial claim. On one air flight, the crew was running low on fuel and was forced to throw out extra gear to lighten the aircraft weight. But things didn’t always work out as planned.
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