page_title: Gauss (ship)
section_title: Ship history
hierarchical_section_title: Gauss (ship) / Ship history
caption_attribution_description: Luftaufnahme Gauss (NOAA) Quelle: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/corp2854.htm Lizenz: PD Beschreibung: Aerial view of the GAUSS in the ice during the German Antarctic Expedition. This picture was obtained from a balloon and is one of the first aerial photographs of the Antarctic environment. Image ID: corp2854, NOAA Corps Collection
context_page_description: Gauss was a ship built in Germany specially for polar exploration, named after the mathematician and physical scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Purchased by Canada in 1904, the vessel was renamed CGS Arctic. As Arctic, the vessel made annual trips to the Canadian Arctic until 1925. The ship's fate is disputed among the sources, but all claim that by the mid-1920s, the vessel was out of service.
context_section_description: Between 1901 and 1903 Gauss explored the Antarctic in the Gauss expedition under the leadership of Erich von Drygalski.
  In early 1904 the ship was purchased by the Canadian government under the advice of Joseph-Elzéar Bernier, who had surveyed the ship before the acquisition. The ship was renamed Arctic and under the command of Bernier she explored the Arctic Archipelago. Bernier and Arctic made annual expeditions to Canada's north. On 1 July 1909, Bernier, without government approval, claimed the entire area between Canada's eastern and western borders all the way to the North Pole. Bernier only left the ship during the First World War, returning to command Arctic again from 1922–1925. The vessel's end is not agreed upon. According to schiffe-und-mehr.com, Arctic was abandoned in 1925 and left to rot at her moorings. Maginley and Collin claim the vessel was broken up in 1926 while the Miramar Ship Index say the ship was abandoned in 1927.
caption: Aerial view of Gauss in the ice during the German Antarctic Expedition taken using a tethered balloon
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