IDNO

P.88577.PAT

Description

Detail of shoreline formation at Upernavik, showing rock intrusion beside a shallow gully, possibly a dyke?. A slate hammer is placed in the photograph to provide a scale, and in the background is the ice foot at water level.

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; Upernavik; ?Danish Harbour

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

13 - 22 July 1934

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

Paterson, Erik T.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Bibliographical Reference: Paterson, T. T., Part 2, Part 3, Geology (no date, circa 1936).
Related text on p. 105 includes:
South Ryder Island “was affected by a major fault running due north and south cutting it almost in half. ... This faulting was associated with the intrusion of gabbro dykes, which preceded and followed the faulting”.

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 pp. 299-300 includes:
“... we passed close under Sanderson's Hope late on June 13 and anchored the same night at Upernivik. ... While at Upernivik the geologists were busy, and Paterson also was in constant touch with Greenlanders, making a collection of proverbial sayings and obtaining the details of about thirty string figures. ... We finally sailed from Upernivik on June 22, ” [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 appears to have been taken during the Heimen’s visit to Upernivik between 13th - 22nd June, 1934. The photograph appears to be part of a series from “Danish Harbour” although no further information has of yet been found on this place. [JD 25/10/2006]

P.88575.PAT to N.88586.PAT and N.88652.PAT to N.88659.PAT were found in the box now numbered C446/33/1/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 8/1/2007]