IDNO

P.86553.PAT

Description

View from the Isbjørn towards the head of Icy Arm which ends in a valley-wide glacier face.

Place

N America; Arctic; Canada; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Cambridge Gulf; Quernbiter Fiord; Icy Arm [North West Territories]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

5 September 1937

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

Paterson, Erik T.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

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.406 includes:
“The distance from Maud Harbour to Ragged Point is about 25 miles, and this is the biggest and grandest of all the fjord approaches. Followed westward the gulf remains wide for about 20 miles, but the main axis continues as an almost straight cut, 2 miles broad, for another twenty. This is a region of almost vertical cliffs, the highest measured being the 2900-foot drop of the Executioner Cliffs. The fjord is dominated by straight features and vertical walls. Most of all it resembled Royal Society Fjord, but it was more exposed, the open sea to the north-east being in sight from the anchorage at the head; on both days that we were here strong winds blew down the fjord. At the head there are two rivers, neither of any great size; we followed up the larger and northern one for a few miles, but it lay off the line of the fjord and is not likely to have its source more than a short distance inland. There are a couple of old winter houses at the fjord head, and occasional caribou tracks were noticed, but there was no sign of the place having been recently frequented by Eskimo.
We returned down Quernbiter Fjord on September 5, a short detour being made into a berg-strewn branch on the north side. A large valley glacier about half a mile in width enters at the head; and it was much the largest glacier seen. An unusual sight was a tributary glacier from the south cascading across the surface of the larger one. This was the only place where a fjord head ended in a valley-wide glacier face.” [JD 5/7/2007]

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]