New Swabia Neuschwabenland | |
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Defunct Antarctic claim of Nazi Germany | |
1939–1945 | |
![]() Territory comprising New Swabia marked in red | |
Historical era | World War II |
• Contact reached | 19 January 1939 |
9 April 1940 | |
• Surrender of Germany | 8 May 1945 |
New Swabia (Norwegian and German: Neuschwabenland) was a disputed Antarctic claim by Nazi Germany within the Norwegian territorial claim of Queen Maud Land and is now a cartographic name sometimes given to an area of Antarctica between 20°E and 10°W in Queen Maud Land.[citation needed] New Swabia was explored by Germany in early 1939 and named after that expedition's ship, Schwabenland, itself named after the German region of Swabia.[1][2]