IDNO

P.86197.PAT

Description

An expedition member standing on the deck of the Isbjørn, and looking upwards - possibly at a high altitude balloon

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; Godhavn

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

?H. Carmichael; ?H.G. Dymond

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:
"A balloon was flown at sea, observed by a contrivance with a moving angle: Carmichael kept the horizontal bar in position, while Dymond followed the elevation of the balloon with the other arm. A working breeze & the rapid horizontal notion of the balloon preluded anything other than interest in the results."
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]