VIIC Antartic patrols?

In Uboataces.com sales lit of it's VIIC DVD it extolls this type sub as an 'Artic Predator' and in it's online sub report says it served...in all oceans 'except the Antartic.'

Two questions: One, if there had been cause would this craft had faired successfully under the frozen continent?

Two, was there in fact any WWII activity that involved the Antartic, sub or otherwise?

 

The Antarctic is actually a land continent so it is not possible in a submarine to sail under it, in the same way a submarine can sail under the arctic Ice Pack. Furthermore, WW2 diesel electric submarines had very little submerged endurance, so they had a very serious necessity to find open water to surface before the crew's oxygen supply was exhausted and/or their batteries became discharged, if they had been taken under the pack ice for any reason. Presumably what those folks mean by the Arctic is far North open sea rather than pack ice. The U-boat fleet were hunters and merchant shipping would try to stay away from the pack ice, so I can't see a lot of utility for a U-boat to venture in to it. There was a German Weather station in Greenland, so there is a possibility that a U-boat might have been involved with that.

Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer

 

only weather type units-surface and cargo to supply these stealth weather beaters. one such weather cargo unit had to be rescued by the LW unit : FAGr 5 Ju 290 and was done so successfully

 

Yanks Clear Greenland of Nazis,1944/12/27 (1944)Energia Forum • View topic - Nazis on Ice

Many thanks for info about the Ju 290

Don't take any notice of the second video I posted on the Energia Site it is for fantasy writing purposes.

Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer

 

Actually the Antarctic is the area south of the Antarctic circle. Antarctica is the continent. Similarly the Arctic is the area north of the Arctic circle. Still not much of interest happening down their. Some weather info might be useful but more for the Pacific than the Atlantic or Europe.

 

Well said, thanx for pointing out my crappy terminology.

LOL Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer