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Wilhelm Filchner

German explorer
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Wilhelm Filchner (born September 13, 1877, Munich, Germany—died May 7, 1957, Zürich, Switzerland) was a scientist and explorer who led the German Antarctic expedition of 1911–12. In 1900 Filchner crossed the Pamirs, the mountainous region of central Asia now chiefly within Tajikistan, and he made an expedition to Tibet in 1903–05. Sailing for Antarctica in the Deutschland (1911), he penetrated the Weddell Sea at 77°50′ S early in 1912 and charted the Luitpold Coast (which...

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