Wilhelm Filchner
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Wilhelm Filchner , 1877-1957, German explorer, geophysicist, and travel writer. He led several expeditions to China and Tibet, where he established magnetic stations, and also led the second German Antarctic expedition (1910-12), which discovered Luitpold Land on the southeast coast of Weddell Sea.
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