The Weather Station That Was lost In The Canadian Wilderness For Almost 40 Years

And a boiled egg

Canada is a country with unimaginably large uninhabited areas. Labrador, the coastal part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, has an area of 113,640 square miles about the same size as the state of Arizona. The total population is 27,197. There are more people living in the little town of Grimsby in the Niagara peninsula than in the entirety of Labrador.

It is very easy for stuff to get lost here.

In the northern hemisphere, weather systems in temperate climates predominantly move from west to east. This gave the Allies an important advantage over Germany because the Allied network of weather stations in North America, Greenland, and Iceland allowed the Allies to make more accurate weather forecasts.

To gather critical weather information, Germany developed automatic weather stations which could send weather readings every three hours during a two-minute transmission and could work for up to six months, depending on the number of battery canisters.

Fourteen stations were to be deployed in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions, two of which were intended for North America.

One of the U-boats carrying a weather station on the way to the area that is now the Territory of Nunavut was sunk by a British air attack while the other, U-537, arrived at Martin Bay in Northern Labrador on October 22, 1943, and set up a weather station coded named Kurt.

The station was lost and forgotten until 1977 when Peter Johnson, a geomorphologist working on an unrelated project, stumbled upon the German weather station. He suspected it was a Canadian military installation and named it “Martin Bay 7”.

A German historian learned of his find and contacted the Canadian Department of National Defence. A team went to the site in 1981 and found the station still there. The lost Weather Station was brought to Ottawa and is now on display at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

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