Originally Posted By: Nickdfresh
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Originally Posted By: Nickdfresh
Originally Posted By: ecotourist
Having a weather station in a remote arctic location makes good sense, as does on-site staff shooting one or more polar bears, which would have been a constant threat.
But eating raw bear meat makes no sense at all. For a group of scientists that just wasn't very smart.
It also makes no sense that they would have been seeking treasure as the name suggests. First of all how much treasure are you likely to find on an uninhabited arctic island. And weather information would have been treasure enough. Keeping their heads down so they wouldn't be discovered would have made more sense.
The D-day invasion might have had a very different outcome if the Germans had better weather information and knew there would be (or even might be) a break in the stormy weather in early June 1944 which was clearly one of the prime periods for the expected invasion. Even Rommel was away in Germany because the weather was so bad.
The Germans had some weather stations in Greenland that were knocked out by the US Coast Guard and Marines IIRC...
They found one in Labrador, Canada too. That was a rather hair-raising find.
I'll have to look into that...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Station_Kurt