IDNO

P.86441.PAT

Description

The Isbjørn moored against ice floe with a crew member carrying two buckets walking away from the ship.

Place

N America; Arctic; Canada; ?Nunavut; ?Ellesmere Island; ?Buchannan Bay; ?Bache Peninsula [North West Territories]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

17 - 21 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”
“590 - 594 - Water from the ice.”
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 p.398 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 objective was the farthest north post, now however abandoned, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, sited about 15 miles in along the north side of Buchanan Bay. Progress across the bay was slow as the Kane Basin floes were many miles in diameter, and a lengthy zigzagging process was necessary. At the same time we were uncertain of the position of the huts, and had to make a wide cast eastwards before nosing in along the south shore of Bache Peninsula towards Flagler Fjord. Moreover the chart, which is based on Sverdrup's made in 1898-99, needs considerable amendment. The post lies about 15 miles west of Cape Camperdown, and an indication that one is near is given by a large and high island, nameless and not marked on the chart. At this point we had to cut through a stretch of unmelted winter ice, worn thin and adrift, but sufficient to show that the open season at Bache is late even in a favourable ice year. Ships can pass inside the island, and the huts are in a small bay immediately beyond, though not visible till one is actually on them, for the post is in a sheltered corner, and if it were not for its remoteness and difficulty of access it would no doubt be still in permanent occupation.” [JD 3/7/2007]

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]