Secret German World War II Base Rediscovered Near North Pole
By Tom Metcalfe, Live Science Contributor | November 5, 2016 08:18am ET
The research team from the Russian Arctic National Park, based in Arkhangelsk, say they’re the first to fully explore and map the wartime site on the remote island. These canisters once contained food and other supplies that were regularly airdropped to the base by German aircraft.
Credit: Evgeny Ermolov/Russian Arctic National Park
The remains of a secret World War II German base have been rediscovered on an island near the North Pole by a team of Russian researchers.
The wartime "Schatzgrabber" ("Treasure Hunter" in German) weather station was built by the German military in 1943 on Alexandra Land, one of the isolated Franz Josef Land islands in the Barents Sea, located more than 680 miles (1,100 kilometers) north of the Russian city of Arkhangelsk.
The islands are snowy and ice-bound for much of the year and the site was last visited in the 1980s, the researchers said. But earlier this year, in August, a Russian archaeological team was able to explore and catalog the remains of the wartime weather station for the first time.
"This summer in the Arctic was very warm, so the entire area of Schatzgrabber was completely free of snow and ice, which made it possible to explore the area fully," team leader Evgeny Ermolov, a senior researcher with the Russian Arctic National Park, which now administers the island, said in a statement.
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