Report of temporary Sub‐Commission on liquidation of agenda of the International Commission for the Polar Year 1932–1933

Abstract

IntroductionThe realization of the Second Polar Year in 1932–1933, as a truly international project, is a monument to the enthusiasm and indefatigability of the late Dr. D. la Cour and to the support generously provided by the Danish Meteorological Institute. From it have already resulted many valuable contributions to knowledge of polar geophysics in numerous publications and in completed or partially completed manuscripts. There remains much material not yet fully compiled or discussed. It would be peculiarly unfortunate if the potentialities for increased understanding of polar geophysics resulting from this great project, in which so many nations and men took selfless part at great cost, were not fully analysed and published. The past ten years have demonstrated that progress and future human welfare depend upon more solid knowledge of natural phenomena in the Arctic and Antarctic.