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Wegener was a German meteorologist, geophysicist and polar researcher. In 1915 he published ‘The Origin of Continents and Oceans’, which outlined his theory of Continental Drift.

Wegener was a member of four expeditions to Greenland. In 1930 he visited Greenland for the last time, where he died shortly after his fiftieth birthday.

Wegener’s theory of Continental Drift was met with scepticism by many scientists. Although he had a lot of evidence to support the theory, he could not explain how the plates moved. It would be almost half a century before this problem began to be solved.

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Alfred Wegener's curiosity toward the possibility of continental drift came in 1910 after he noticed how Earth's continents resembled pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. For example, he noted how South America coast correctly lined up with the coast of Northwest Africa.

at one point in time, all of the continents were joined together as one large mass of land, then the land spread apart and drifted into their current positions.

Continental drift describes one of the earliest ways geologists thought continents moved over time. This map displays an early "supercontinent," Gondwana, which eventually moved to form the continents we know today. Fossils of similar organisms across widely disparate continents encouraged the revolutionary theory of continental drift.

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In 1912 Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) noticed the same thing and proposed that the continents were once compressed into a single protocontinent which he called Pangaea (meaning "all lands"), and over time they have drifted apart into their current distribution.

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Wegener found fossil evidence that the continents were once joined. The same type of plant and animal fossils are found on continents that are now widely separated. Wegener suggested that when the organisms were alive, the lands were joined and the organisms were living side-by-side.

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Plate tectonics is a scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth’s subterranean movements. The theory, which solidified in the 1960s, transformed the earth sciences by explaining many phenomena, including mountain building events, volcanoes, and earthquakes.

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A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arisen from the same cause, usually an orogeny. Mountain ranges are formed by a variety of geological processes, but most of the significant ones on Earth are the result of plate tectonics.

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The iconic Glossopteris flora from Antarctica was discovered and collected by Robert Falcon Scott and his party near the Beardmore Glacier in the Transantarctic Mountain during their ill-fated return trip from the South Pole in January 1912 before they perished.

During the first half of the 20th century, geologist Eduard Suess discovered that fossils of the extinct seed fern Glossopteris could be found on three different continents. This led him to believe that, at one time, the continents had formed one gigantic supercontinent, and later drifted apart.

Glossopteris was the most common genus of an extinct family of seed-bearing, or flowerless, plants collectively called Glossopteridales. The genus name means 'tongue fern,' a reference to the shape and general appearance of its leaves. Fossilized Glosopteris.