IDNO

P.86196.PAT

Description

Elevated photograph of the high altitude balloon launch site with one expedition member holding down one balloon, while three members ?deinflate the second balloon which is situated on a ground sheet. A fifth man and a dog watch on. In the background is an astronomical telescope mounted on a wooden tripod, an apparatus case, and an outboard motor.

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; Godhavn

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

H. Carmichael

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”
“167, 168 & 170. An abortive Carmichael flight, stopped by fog which was a prelude to permanent local deterioration of the weather.”
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. 389 includes:
“Godhavn was reached on July 15, and preparations at once began for the first balloon flight. ... A base was laid out, one end near where McClintock's Fox lies, her ribs and keel still exposed at low tide, the other about 1 mile distant across the harbour at the "watering place." Each end of the base was manned by three men, using one or other of three instruments, an Air Ministry balloon theodolite offering a large field but coarse readings, a Watts 3/4-inch theodolite permitting sharp readings of arc, and an astronomical telescope. Of these the Watts theodolite gave the most accurate results, and the others were by way of safeguard, and at the worst if the observers at one end of the base lost sight completely of the balloons by mist or faulty observation, the other set of observers would still have a check on distance by using the telescope which was provided with a graticule to enable subtense measurements to be made”. [JD 14/2/2007]

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]