IDNO

P.86419.PAT

Description

The Isbjørn moored amongst broken ice floe in front of Bache Peninsula, Ellesmere Land, with Cape Camperdown on the right.

Physical Condition: Right side of panoramic view with P.86420.PAT. [JD 9/7/2007]

Place

N America; Arctic; Canada; Nunavut; Ellesmere Island; Bache Peninsula; Cape Camperdown [North West Territories]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

19 - 20 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 17 - 21.”
“617. The Bache Peninsula to Cape Camerdown (R.). RCMP Post extreme left -.”
See Related Documents File. [Jocelyne Dudding 6/3/2008]

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. Image P.86419.PAT published on p. U20 with caption:
“Bache Peninsula, Ellesmere Land, with Cape Camperdown on the right”.
Text on pp. 398-399 includes:
“On the third day we understood local conditions sufficiently well to feel justified in leaving Lethbridge's party at Turnstone Beach, while the ship crossed for a short visit to Bache Peninsula. ... Our main interest in visiting Bache was a geological one, as it was known that the Thule sandstone, a name originated by Dr. Lauge Koch, who is the pioneer in North West Greenland geology, is found on Bache Peninsula lying between the Archaean basement rocks and lower Palaeozoic beds. The first observa-tions had been made on Sverdrup's expedition by Schei, who reported a red sandstone and Cambrian fossils lying loose, and he was succeeded by Bentham in 1935 who was the first to identify the red sandstone as the Thule sandstone. An almost perfect section of these various rocks occurs immediately behind the hut.” [JD 8/2/2007]

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]