A weather station on the island of Alexandra Land in the Arctic Circle is affect in a story concerning undercover Nazi science task and meteorologists poisoned by polar bear meat . The story is so unknown , it ’s often ignore as an odd state of war - time myth . But some 72 age later , Russian researchers have stumbled on the site of this lost weather condition place , along with a handful of wartime souvenir from the 1940s , fit in to theRussian Arctic National Park .
" Before it was only bonk from written reservoir , but now we also have existent proof , " tell Evgeny Ermolov , a senior investigator at the National Park , ina statement .
The station , experience as the Fortune Seeker or Schatzgraber , was a clandestine Nazi - geological era meteorological station that was operated by Germany on the Franz Josef Land archipelago during the Second World War .
It was reportedly abandon and destroyed in July 1944 . The tarradiddle kick the bucket thatall of the scientistson the island became severely sick with trichinosis , after being forced to eat infected polar bear centre during a stint of low supplying . The meteorologists were rescued and the ingroup was thought to be actively destroy . The come after decades of harsh Arctic atmospheric condition were also think to have eroded what was leave of the settlement .
Among the artifacts discovered on the island are object bearing Nazi insignia and swastikas . Most importantly for the researchers , many of the item also look to be notice and date to give further confirmation that this is the literal deal . They now hope to take the object back to the mainland where they can be archive , study , and eventually put on public display .
" About 500 items of historical note value have been pull together on the ground of the former Treasure Hunter German place that go on the Alexandra Land island of Franz Josef Land from September 1943 until July 1944 , " National Park wardrobe escritoire Yulia Petrova said ina statement . " They let in munition and military equipment , everyday items , personal essence , and fragments of meteorological devices . "
