Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin in 1880 ... In 1930 he sailed from Denmark as the leader of a major expedition to Greenland -- his fourth and last. He celebrated his fiftieth birthday on ...

He died in 1930 on the Greenland ice cap, victim of his own inept planning and execution of a middle-scale replay of Robert F. Scott's second Antarctic expedition, complete with ponies and untested ...

Alfred Wegener was one of those people. Though trained as an astronomer, he was a specialist on Greenland ... Few people accepted Wegener's views in his day, but they became the center of heated ...