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charts for northern hemisphere for 1932–1933<br />

produced by the Deutsche Seewarte 22 (Fig. 1.1-7) and the<br />

magnetic data published by the Royal Meteorological<br />

Institute on behalf of the participating nations. In July<br />

1934, la Cour delivered an interim overview of the<br />

goals and preliminary results of IPY-2 in his address to<br />

the 2nd General Assembly of the <strong>International</strong> Council<br />

of Scientific Unions (ICSU) in Brussels, nine months<br />

after the completion of the IPY-2 observation period<br />

(la Cour, 1935; Laursen, 1959). No international event<br />

or conferences were held in the aftermath, and the<br />

history, organization and the outcomes of<br />

IPY-2 were not reviewed again until after<br />

World War II (Laursen, 1951, 1959).<br />

At CPY-3 in 1933, it was agreed that the<br />

Commission should continue in existence<br />

after the end of IPY-2 observation period, to<br />

ensure that all data would be organized and<br />

made available to the science community.<br />

A central Bureau (depository) for IPY-2<br />

materials, including copies of magnetic and<br />

earth current registrations, was established<br />

at the Danish Meteorological Institute<br />

under la Cour’s supervision. The CPY and<br />

the central Bureau were expected to receive<br />

copies of all publications generated by IPY-<br />

2 (Laursen, 1959). The Commission kept<br />

working with the same membership and<br />

leadership until September 1939, when<br />

World War II broke out and the international<br />

scientific collaboration was suspended. La Cour died<br />

in 1942 and parts of the IPY-2 archive in Copenhagen<br />

were reportedly lost during World War II (Laursen,<br />

1951).<br />

The CPY was not formally terminated until 1946.<br />

Since the tasks of CPY had not been completed and<br />

some of its funds were still available, the IMO established<br />

a ‘Temporary Commission on the Liquidation<br />

of the <strong>Polar</strong> <strong>Year</strong> 1932–1933’ of six members, three of<br />

whom served on the original CPY (Fleming and Laursen,<br />

1946). The ‘Temporary Commission’ had its office<br />

Box 3 List of Nations Participating in the Second <strong>International</strong> <strong>Polar</strong> <strong>Year</strong><br />

1932 –1933<br />

Algiers<br />

Argentina<br />

Australia<br />

Austria<br />

Belgium<br />

Brazil<br />

Bulgaria<br />

Canada<br />

Chile<br />

China<br />

Colombia<br />

Czechoslovakia<br />

Denmark<br />

Egypt<br />

Finland<br />

France<br />

Germany<br />

Great Britain<br />

Haiti<br />

Hungary<br />

Iceland<br />

India<br />

Indonesia<br />

Italy<br />

Japan<br />

Latvia<br />

Madagascar<br />

Mexico<br />

Morocco<br />

Netherlands<br />

New Zealand<br />

Norway<br />

Peru<br />

Philippines<br />

Poland<br />

Portugal<br />

South Africa<br />

Spain<br />

Sweden<br />

Switzerland<br />

Syria<br />

Tunis<br />

Turkey<br />

U.S.A<br />

U.S.S.R.<br />

Yugoslavia<br />

Fig. 1.1-7 Surface<br />

temperature<br />

map for Northern<br />

Hemisphere, 1 March<br />

1933, based upon<br />

IPY-2 meteorological<br />

observations.<br />

Deutsche Seewarte,<br />

Hamburg.<br />

(Courtesy: Cornelia Lüdecke)<br />

P l a n n I n g a n d I m P l e m e n t I n g I P Y 2 0 0 7–2 0 0 8 13

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