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| Accession no.: |
Y: 2012/20/142 |
| Object name: |
Chalk and charcoal sketch |
| Title: |
Sandvik trappers' hut, Granatdal, Clavering Ø, with Jordanhill, N.E. Greenland, July 03. |
| Description: |
An easy day at their Storholts-Hus intermediate camp as they were waiting for Robert and Ian to return from the previous day with fuel. They eventually returned at 5pm. The sketch looks past Sandvik west to Jordanhill, named by J.M. Wordie on his Cambridge University Expedition in the late 1920s. Rod corner climbed in the foothills of Granatdal behind the Storholts-Hus and found Carex vaginata, not recorded since 1931 in the area. |
| Medium: |
Chalk and charcoal sketch |
| Artist: |
Woolmore, Ray |
| Note: |
One kilometre to west of Storholts-hus, Sandvik (No. 411-1 Peter Schmidt-Mikkelsen 1994) is on the south-western coast of Clavering Ø, 5kms west of the Granatdal delta. Lat. 74°09'N, long. 21°32'W. (Danmark-Gronland 1:250,000 Sheet 74 Ø.2 Clavering Ø.) |
| Dimensions: |
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Picture:
Width: 220mm, height: 152mm
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