IDNO

P.86165.PAT

Description

Harald Drever and Derek Leaf climbing a snow covered slope of Quaarsorsusaq (Hope Sanderson).

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; Quaarsorsusaq [Hope Sanderson]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Derek Leaf; Harald Drever

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

15 - 24 July 1937

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

Paterson, Erik T.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: Same image mounted in James Wordie’s 1937 album with the number and caption:
“July 15 - 24”
“217 - 220. Drever & Leaf on the Carapace.”
See Related Documents File. [Jocelyne Dudding 9/3/2008]

Bibliographical Reference: J. M. Wordie; H. Carmichael; E. G. Dymond; T. C. Lethbridge, ‘An Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic in 1937’ in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 92, No. 5. (Nov., 1938), pp. 385-418.
Text on pp. 390-391 includes:
“We were now ready to move on to the third strategic point, which we had decided should be at the Ryder Islands in lat. 74o 40' N. Upernivik was reached in the early evening of July 31 and left late the next night, the visit being no more than a formal call to report to the Governor that we were in his region. Meantime Dymond, Robin, and Drever climbed to the summit of Hope Sanderson (Kaersorssuak), the high landmark immediately to the south of Upernivik which marks John Davis' farthest in 1587. We were abreast of the Ryder Islands in roughish weather late on August 2, and at 2 a.m. on the 3rd took shelter from a strong south wind under the lee of Amdrup Island”. [JD 15/2/2007]


P.86084.PAT to P.86583.PAT were found wrapped in the card now numbered C446/1/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 7/2/2007]