Eismitte

thumb|right|Station Eismitte in 1930 thumb|The three scientists manning the station: Ernst Sorge, Fritz Loewe and Johannes Georgi with one of the [[aerosledges of the expedition.]] Eismitte, also called Mid-Ice in English, was a meteorological station established, in the middle of the Greenland Ice Sheet, by the 1930-31 German Greenland Expedition. The venture took place from July 1930 until August 1931, and established three Arctic stations on the same parallel. The expedition leader, German scientist Alfred Wegener, died during a trip back from Eismitte, in early November 1930. The station was abandoned on 1 August 1931.

==Location== The name "Eismitte" means Ice-Middle in German, and the campsite was located from the coast at an estimated altitude of . The coldest temperature recorded at the site was on 20 March 1931, while the warmest temperature noted was on 9 July 1931. For the 12-month period beginning 1 August 1930 and ending 5 August 1931, the warmest month, July, had a mean monthly temperature of . while the coldest month, February, averaged . Over the same period a total of of water-equivalent precipitation was recorded, with most of it being received in Winter. At the latitude of the camp, the sun does not set between 13 May and 30 July each year, and does not rise between 23 November and 20 January.