Site Represents a site. Show Point true Country Christmas Island Place The town or city Christmas Island Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource British and Dutch-German Expeditions to Christmas Island to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of 21 September, 1922 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 21/09/1922 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 15 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource am619@st-andrews.ac.uk Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,-10.5595,105.6455; Description An account of the resource An expedition from the Greenwich Observatory and a joint Dutch-German expedition traveled to Christmas island to make observations of the total solar eclipse in May 1922. Both teams sought confirmatory evidence for Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity which the Greenwich team had found in 1919, although with large error intervals. Tragically, both teams were clouded out, but the north of the island had clear views of the eclipse. <p><a href="https://eclipse-history.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/lick-observatorys-successful-verification-of-general-relativity-at-september-1922-total-solar-eclipse/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read article</a>.</p> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived tsee Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT