IDNO

P.86503.PAT

Description

Three crew members, Sven Botolphsen, Trygve Elvanes [2nd Engineer], and Hilbert Autonsen [Carpenter], along with Harald Drever, pulling ropes through pulleys on the deck of the Isbjørn - probably to hoist the hunted polar bear in P.86502.PAT onto the Isbjørn.

Place

N America; Arctic; Canada; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Dexterity Bay; Grandolf Head; Dexterity Fiord [North West Territories]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Sven Botolphsen; Harald Drever; Trygve Elvanes (2nd Engineer); Hilbert Autonsen (Carpenter)

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

30 - 31 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:
“21. Sven Botolphsen, Drever, Trygve Elvanes [2nd Engineer], Hilbert Autonsen [Carpenter] / channessen.”
See Related Documents File. [Jocelyne Dudding 3/3/2008]

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.405 includes:
“Captain Adams had told us that there was a long fjord running in behind Dexterity Harbour, marked at its entrance by a small islet on the starboard hand, and as first seen by him was described as a "regular hole in the wall." We spent August 30 in this fjord, and named it Dexterity Fjord, as this was apparently the whalers' name, when they came, as they frequently did, for caribou hunts. In its outer part the side walls consist of magnificent cliffs 2000 feet high, on which joint faces, scaling off like the successive coats of an onion, are prominent. Gandolf Head was conspicuous in this respect. A sharp right-hand turn is followed by an equally sharp turn to the left, but beyond the zigzag the scenery changes from a confined fjord to a region of wide open valleys rising to gentler mountains, resembling country round the Sound of Mull; we named a bay on the left Duart Bay on this account. No caribou were seen, but it appeared a very likely grazing ground. Thereafter the fjord sides closed again and remained steep as far as the head, where we anchored, 40 miles in from Dexterity Harbour. The fjord head is marked by conspicuous terraces. Next day we retraced our steps and navigated throughout the day counter-clockwise round a large irregular-shaped island, which I propose to call after Captain Adams, and then feeling our way through the stranded bergs on the bar at the south end we doubled back to anchor over-night at Duart Bay.” [JD 4/7/2007]

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]