International Polar Commission

…recognized in 1879 by the International Polar Commission meeting in Hamburg, Germany, and thus the 11 participating nations organized the First International Polar Year (1882–83). Most work was planned for the better-known Arctic, and, of the four geomagnetic and weather stations scheduled for Antarctic regions, only the German station on…

…the establishment of the first International Polar Year, 1882–83, during which stations throughout the Arctic took observations and pooled the results. The countries participating were Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the United States, and Great Britain. The 11 stations, reading eastward from Svalbard, were Isfjord (Ice…