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The Third Reich's Arctic Outpost
Archaeology
|May/June 2017
In 1943, the German navy constructed a secret base on the island of Alexandra Land in the Arctic Ocean.
Code named “Treasure Hunter,” the station was staffed by meteorologists who provided weather forecasts to German cruisers and submarines in the Arctic. After the war, Soviet officials ordered the base destroyed. “We had only a very vague understanding of where the station was and how much had been preserved,” says Russian Arctic National
This story is from the May/June 2017 edition of Archaeology.
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