Editing Erich von Drygalski (section)

== ''Gauss'' expedition ==
{{Main|Gauss expedition}}
[[Image:Gauss corp2854.jpg|240px|thumb|right|The ''Gauss'' enclosed in the ice. Photo taken from a balloon, the first [[aerial photography]] in Antarctica]]
Drygalski led the first German [[South Pole|South Polar]] expedition with the ship ''Gauss'' to explore the unknown area of [[Antarctica]] lying south of the [[Kerguelen Islands]]. The expedition started from [[Kiel]] in the summer of 1901. A small party of the expedition was also stationed on the Kerguelen Islands, while the main party proceeded further south. Drygalski also paid a brief call to [[Heard Island]] and provided the first comprehensive scientific information on the island's geology, flora and fauna. Despite being trapped by ice for nearly fourteen months until February 1903, the expedition discovered new territory in [[Antarctica]], the [[Kaiser Wilhelm II Land]] with the [[Gaussberg]]. The expedition arrived back in Kiel in November 1903. Subsequently, Drygalski wrote the narrative of the expedition and edited the voluminous scientific data. Between 1905 and 1931, he published twenty [[Volume (bibliography)|volumes]] and two [[atlas]]es documenting the expedition and was awarded the 1933 [[Royal Geographical Society]]'s [[Patron's Medal]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/C5962519-882A-4C67-803D-0037308C756D/0/GoldMedallists18322011.pdf |title=List of Past Gold Medal Winners |publisher=Royal Geographical Society |access-date=24 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927221002/http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/C5962519-882A-4C67-803D-0037308C756D/0/GoldMedallists18322011.pdf |archive-date=27 September 2011 }}</ref>