IDNO

P.87900.PAT

Description

Kettle holes or pot holes formed in gravel beds by slumps of floe ice in lagoon bar of Middle Duck Island.

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; West Greenland; Duck Islands; Middle Duck Island

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Ritchie, Montague H.W.

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thomson [from James Wordie’s Expedition to Melville Bay and North-East Baffin Land, 1934]

Date

4 - 7 July 1934

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

Paterson, Erik T.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Bibliographical Reference: J. M. Wordie ‘An Expedition to Melville Bay and North-East Baffin Land’ in The Geographical Journal Vol. 86, No. 4 (Oct., 1935), pp. 297-313. Text on p. 301 includes:
“This enforced delay made possible a short visit to the Duck Islands (Kitsigsorsuit), and we went back on our tracks south-south-west for a distance of about 30 miles with fairly open ice conditions. ... During the time that we were there it was evident that this was the only possible anchorage under the then ice conditions, but in spite of its advantages it does not appear that it was ever much in use as an anchorage for whaling ships, though the Duck Islands was the regular point for which they steered after leaving Horse Head in their northward progress. Combined with tides the islands break up the ice, and the whalers could always be certain therefore of some open water under their lee. Their circular look-out (now replaced by a Danish Geodetic cairn) was on the more southerly of the two south-west islands; and there are also some graves on its west side”. [JD 18/10/2006]

Photographer: Note in above article, page 313, accredits all photographs to M.H.W. Ritchie unless otherwise stated. [JD 18/10/2006]

Place and Date: This photograph was possibly taken at Duck Islands between 4th - 7th July, 1934. [JD 25/10/2006]

Bibliographical Reference: Paterson, T. T., Part 2, Part 3, Geology (no date, circa 1936). Plate 6, p.30, with caption “Kettle holes in lagoon bar, Middle Duck Island, W. Greenland”. Text on p. 30 includes:
“The open tubular pockets often have an in-filling of gravel derived from the Upper Even-bedded Series and this gravel, ... appears as if it “poured” into the cavity and so roughly differentiated itself. This suggests that these cavities were of the nature of pot-holes or kettle-holes, somewhat similar to a group observed in West Greenland”. [JD 7/12/2006]

P.87794.PAT to N.87937.PAT were found in the box now numbered C446/8/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 7/12/2006]