Weather Station Kurt | |
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Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26 | |
Martin Bay, Dominion of Newfoundland | |
Coordinates | 60°05′00″N 64°22′51″W / 60.083389°N 64.380778°W |
Site information | |
Operator | Kriegsmarine |
Controlled by | Germany |
Site history | |
Built | 22 October 1943 |
Built by | Kurt Sommermeyer & Walter Hildebrant |
In use | 1943 | – 1944
Demolished | 1981 |
Battles/wars | Battle of the Atlantic |
Weather Station Kurt (Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26) was an automatic weather station, erected by a German U-boat crew of the Kriegsmarine in northern Labrador, Dominion of Newfoundland, in October 1943. Installing the equipment for the station was the only known armed German military operation on land in North America during the Second World War. After the war, it was forgotten until its rediscovery in 1977.[1]