Site Represents a site. Show Point true Country China Place The town or city Lintao, Gansu 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 Chinese Expedition in WWII to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of 21 September, 1941 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Description An account of the resource The Chinese Zijin Mountain Observatory sent an expedition to Lintao to observe this eclipse. The expedition team traveled 3200 kilometres and 43 days to reach the observation point. Over the expedition, they often found themselves in the shadow of Japanese bombers. It was thanks to the joint tremendous patriotic support from the government, military and other relevant parties that the team could finally accomplish the first modern total solar eclipse observation in China. It was commented that the spirits such as patriotism and perseverance demonstrated in this expedition not just by the expedition team but by some integrated joint force in China rendered this expedition with meanings beyond the scope of astronomy. <p><a href="https://eclipse-history.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/extraordinary-patriotism-demonstrated-by-chinese-eclipse-science-apostles-during-the-1941-total-solar-eclipse/" target="_blank">Read article</a>.</p> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 21/09/1941 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 29 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived tsee Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource yl238 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,35.3929647775353,103.85697808116677; Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT