 Felix König, born around 1880, was a scientist and alpinist from Graz in Austria.He had acquired some experience of the Arctic in Greenland, and in 1911 he was invited to join Wilhelm Filchner's Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–13.The main geographical objective of this expedition was to determine the relationship between the eastern and western landmasses of Antarctica; were they connected by land, or were there two landmasses separated by water?