Lillie Marleen Refuge
Coordinates: 71 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E
The Lillie-Marleen-Schutzhütte is a German polar research station in the Antarctic . It was in 1979 during the GANOVEX-I expedition (German Antarctic North Victoria Land Expedition I) provided by the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources was carried out (BGR), in the Everett Range near the Pennell Coast in northern Victoria Land erected. The name is derived from the song Lili Marleen and the Lillie Glacier , on the edge of which the hut was built. The Lillie Marleen Hut was the Federal Republic of Germany's first stop in Antarctica after the Second World War .
The bivouac hut is a plastic cabin with a base area of 8 m × 10 m, which was mounted on a metal frame.
When, during the GANOVEX II expedition in 1981/1982, the expedition ship Gotland II in Yule Bay was hit by pack ice and sank on December 18, 1981, all 41 expedition and crew members could be evacuated to the Lillie Marleen hut by helicopter . However, the small refuge did not offer enough space for all castaways. Some of them had to be housed in tents in the freezing cold. The researchers in the Lillie-Marleen-Hütte established radio contact with the American McMurdo station, 700 km away . Hercules transport planes were able to start from a US camp just 150 km away and bring the team and the scientists to the McMurdo station to safety. GANOVEX II was canceled.
The construction of the Lillie Marleen Hut in 1979 marked the new beginning of German Antarctic research after the Second World War by the BGR, which was further expanded in 1983 with the construction of the Gondwana station on the Ross Sea. The Lillie Marleen cabin is no longer in use today. It only serves as an emergency shelter.
At the 28th Consultative Meeting of the Antarctic States Parties in Stockholm in 2005 , the Lillie Marleen Hut was recognized as the first German " Historic Site and Monument HSM-79 " on the Antarctic continent, which in addition to the refuge also includes a memorial stone commemorating the dramatic sinking of the expedition ship Gotland II in 1981.
The inscription on the memorial stone reads:
"GANOVEX II 81/82
ENDED
DUE TO THE
SINKING OF MS GOTLAND II"
Web links
- German refuge placed under international monument protection , press release by the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials
- Norbert W. Roland, Franz Tessensohn: Lillie Marleen Hut and Gondwana Station in the Antarctic (PDF; 1.1 MB). In: Polarforschung 73 (1), 2003 (published 2005), pp. 31–35
- Photo of the Lillie-Marleen-Hütte on the website of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
- Videos and photos of Lillie Marleen on realnature.tv
Antarctica: Dallmann Laboratory | Drescher station | Filchner station | GARS-O'Higgins | Georg Forster Station | Gondwana Station | Kohnen Station | Lillie Marleen Refuge | Georg von Neumayer Station | Neumayer Station II | Neumayer Station III . Arctic: Geophysical Observatory Ebeltofthafen | Ice center | Koldewey station .