IDNO

D.101259.PAT

Description

Ink drawing of “To illustrate the orientation of constituent blocks when a moving soil meets resistance” on Amdrup’s Island.

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; Melville Bay; Amdrup’s 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

8 - 25 July 1934

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

Paterson, Erik T.

Format

Album Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Bibliographical Reference: Paterson, T. T., Part 2, Part 3, Geology (no date, circa 1936). Fig. 12, p. 64, with caption “To illustrate the orientation of constituent blocks when a moving soil meets resistance”. Related Text is on p. 64. [JD 14/12/2006]

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. 303 and p. 307 includes:
“East of Bloch Island is the 1300-foot high Amdrup Island, which now became our look-out point over Melville Bay. During the next three weeks we moved about in this south-east corner of the bay, anchoring in turn at two of the Ryder Islands, at Amdrup Island, and at Devil's Thumb Island, when not working back and forwards in the ice itself. The first survey of the Melville Bay ice from a high outlook point had been made from Wilcox Head on July 3. A second was made on July 8 from Amdrup Island. ...
Wandel Land was to be our last land effort in Greenland. On July 25 we went back to Amdrup Island for a fresh view across the pack, and next day quitted the coast and steamed out due west from Wilcox Head” [JD 8/12/2006]

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 while the Heimen was in southern Melville Bay between the 3rd - 25th July 1934, during which they made at least two stops on Amdrup Island, firstly on the 8th July and subsequently on the 25th July 1934. [JD 25/10/2006]

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