How to pronounce “peterman” in English

And Petermann's theory was that it met the ice, tunneled under the ice, softened the ice as it went, and eventually went

August Petermann thought that it was a continent.

The monument to Petermann in Gotha.

He was cursing Petermann's name, but he thought he might not sail to the North Pole, but he might drift there in the ice

Somebody who was captivated by Petermann's ideas was this guy, the third richest man in New York at the time, the publisher and editor of the largest newspaper in the world,

bank rolling an expedition to the North Pole to test the theories of August Petermann.

So it was a motley crew of individuals heading north to test Petermann's theories.

and kind of chilling to learn of some of their more recent discoveries such as a giant crack that is forming in the Petermann Glacier, which

One of them was this guy, Dr. August Petermann who you alluded a to in the introduction.

But this begins to show a little of the theories on which the Jeanette expedition was based and Petermann's idea.

Well, the theories about the foremost cartographer of the world, a German named August Petermann, believed that warm currents sustained at green island