Koldewey Society
Koldewey may refer to: * Koldewey Island, an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia *Store Koldewey, an island in northeastern Greenland * 11352 Koldewey, an asteroid People *Carl Koldewey, German Arctic explorer * Heather Koldewey, British marine scientist and environmentalist *Robert Koldewey Robert Johann Koldewey (10 September 1855 – 4 February 1925) was a German archaeologist, famous for his in-depth excavation of the ancient city of Babylon in modern-day Iraq. He was born in Blankenburg am Harz in Germany, the duchy of Brunswick, ...

Koldewey Island
Koldewey Island (russian: остров Кольдевея, ) is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. Geography The island is in length.GoogleEarth Its highest point is (temporarily named as Mountain of ''Carl-Christian''). On the top there is a double peak stack high. The second-highest point Mountain of ''Robert-Johann'' in the southwest is named after Carl Koldewey's son Robert Koldewey. The island has no lakes but its single valley has a creek in the summer. The island belongs to the Russkaya Arktika National Park since 15 June 2009. There is the same arctic climate and flora as the "mother" island Salm but Koldewey is fully unglacierized. The sound between both islands is about deep. The island extends in two directions: in the north more dynamically with a longish steep cape and small islet Schoenau at the end, in the southwest very shallow, long flat bar cape with over underwater reef not deeper as , that connects with the glacierized side of the Salm Island. The m ...
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Store Koldewey
Store Koldewey, meaning 'Big Koldewey', is the largest of the Koldewey Islands in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. History The island was visited by the Second German North Polar Expedition 1869–70, led by Carl Koldewey and referred to as ''Grosse Koldewey Insel'' in the astronomy section of the expedition report, but this may not have been intended as a formal name. The present island was shown on Koldewey's maps as three islands. However, the 1906–08 Danmark Expedition showed them to be connected and called the island Store Koldewey. Lille Koldewey is a smaller island to the northeast of its northern end. Geography Store Koldewey is the largest of the ''Koldewey Islands''. It is a long and narrow island separating the Dove Bay Dove Bay ( da, Dove Bugt) is a bay in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park area. Etymology Dove bay is said to have been the legendary ''Breidifjòrdr'' of the Saga ...
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11352 Koldewey
Year 1135 ( MCXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Levant * Spring – Shams al-Mulk Isma'il, Seljuk ruler of Damascuoks, sends envoys to Imad al-Din Zengi, Seljuk ruler of Mosul, to seek his protection in exchange of Damascus. Zengi crosses the Euphrates, receiving the surrender of the city of Hama. He besieges Damascus – but due to a shortage of supplies – he is forced to abandon the siege. Zengi extricates himself from Damascus, his Seljuk forces capture the fortresses at Ma'arrat and Atharib. * Queen Melisende of Jerusalem reconciles with her husband Fulk V, after a period of estrangement occasioned by her growing power, and rumors that she has had an affair with Hugh II (du Puiset), former count of Jaffa. Europe * January 7 – King Harald IV returns with Danish reinforcements and the support of King Eric II (the Memorable). He captures his nephew and joint ...
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Carl Koldewey
Carl Christian Koldewey (26 October 1837 – 17 May 1908) was a German Arctic explorer. He led both German North Polar Expeditions. Life and career Koldewey was the son of merchant Johann Christian Koldewey and his wife Wilhelmine Meyer. Koldewey enrolled as a sailor in 1853 immediately after Grammar school at Clausthal. At age 22, he attended the Naval school in Bremen, where he was among Arthur Breusing's best pupils. Later he went to sea again but returned to Naval school in 1861. After becoming a captain, Koldewey studied mathematics, physics, and astronomy at the universities of Hanover and Göttingen between 1866 and 1867. Expeditions Through his teacher Breusing and encouraged by August Petermann Koldewey was given the leadership of the first Arctic expedition as captain of ship ''Grönland''. He had the choice of either advancing northwards as far as possible along Greenland's east coast or to reach so-called Gillis-Land by travelling around Spitsbergen. But adverse con ...
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Heather Koldewey
Heather Koldewey is the co-founder of Project Seahorse and head of marine and freshwater for the Zoological Society of London- London Zoo Aquarium. She additionally serves as an honorary professor for University of Exeter and a National Geographic explorer. Her research interests focus on marine and freshwater conservation, seahorse biology and genetics, and the impact of the aquarium trade on wild populations of fish and aquatic invertebrates. Education Koldewey obtained a B.Sc. Biological Sciences (Marine and Fish Biology) at the University of Plymouth with First Class Honours in 1989. She then went on to receive a Ph.D. from the University College Swansea/University College London in 1993, where her thesis focused on the genetics of brown trout populations in Welsh rivers. Career and Research In 1997, Koldewey became the Curator of the Aquarium and Reptile House at the London Zoo, and has worked to advance the role of aquariums in fish conservation globally. She was also ...
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