where is wegener’s body?

Alfred Wegener’s body is still in Greenland, entombed within the ice sheet where he died during the German Greenland Expedition of 1930–1931.

Quick scoop

• Wegener died in November 1930 while trying to return from the inland ice station “Eismitte” to the West camp on the Greenland ice sheet.

• His companion, Rasmus Villumsen, buried him carefully in the snow and marked the grave with skis before continuing on alone and disappearing.

• A search party found Wegener’s body on the ice on May 12, 1931, roughly halfway between Eismitte and the West camp, lying peacefully as if he had died in his tent.

• Expedition members built an ice-block mausoleum over him and later erected an iron cross (about 6–7 meters/20 feet high) above the site at the surface of the ice sheet.

• Over the decades, snow and ice accumulation have buried the grave, the mausoleum, and the cross deep within the Greenland ice sheet, so they are no longer visible at the surface.

So, where is Wegener’s body now?

• His remains are still at the original burial spot on the central Greenland ice sheet, now deeply covered by accumulating ice and snow, effectively part of the glacier itself.

• The exact surface marker is gone, and the site has moved with the flowing ice, so there is no accessible modern “gravesite” people can visit like a normal cemetery.

In other words, if you’re asking “where is Wegener’s body?” the best current answer is:
It lies deep inside the Greenland ice sheet, beneath where his iron-cross memorial once stood, slowly traveling with the glacier.

TL;DR: Wegener’s body was buried on the Greenland ice sheet in 1930, found and entombed in ice in 1931, marked with an iron cross, and since then has been swallowed by the growing and flowing ice, remaining inside the Greenland ice sheet rather than in a conventional, visitable grave.

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