IDNO

P.86180.PAT

Description

The captain holding a high altitude balloon which is being inflated from a tank operated by second man. A third expedition member stands in the foreground. All on the deck of the Isbjørn.

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; Qaanaaq [Thule; New Thule]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Captain Bergesen; Rickandsen

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

5 - 13 August 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:
“August 5 -13.”
“Thule, 5th - 13th”
“Cary Is, 9th - 12th”
“Cary Islands”
“400. A pilot inflated on deck in Isbjorn harbour - Captain and Rickansen.”
See Related Documents File. [Jocelyne Dudding 7/3/2008]

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. 389 includes:
“We had decided that the smaller pilot balloons, which were to be flown daily to test weather conditions, should be under as careful and continuous observation during flight as the larger instrument-carrying balloons. In this way in addition to the main object, which was to predict the probable landing place of the instrument balloons, we were also able to make a study of the movements of the upper air. Observers had to be trained in instrument use and in routine, and this was done with the pilot balloons, each about 4 feet in diameter, during the first three days of our stay, while Dymond, Hunter, and Carmichael were unpacking and assembling their instruments”. [JD 14/2/2007]

Place: In the BFI’s synopses of Wordie’s 1937 film of Greenland, mention is made of footage of “Nugssnag [sic] settlement, eskimoes, a kayak maker, and girls showing off their best boots”. [Reel 1, 96 foot] [Source:
BFI, http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/14564?view=synopsis] [JD 13/2/2007]

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]