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Museum catalogue: Polar Art Collection

 

Straumpollen bay, Scott Keltie Øer, Vegasund and Julekage, NE Greenland, July 2005

Image
Accession no.: Y: 2012/20/169
Object name: Pastel sketch
Title: Straumpollen bay, Scott Keltie Øer, Vegasund and Julekage, NE Greenland, July 2005
Description: On this day they walked from their one-night camp (at a cove just east of their Base Camp) in glorious weather to their last subsidiary camp at the eastern end of Straumpollen Bay. En route they saw long-tailed ducks and red-throated divers. The views from the pass above the camp were extensive and included the ice-covered eastern end of Vegasund.
Medium: Pastel sketch
Artist: Woolmore, Ray
Note: View north-west from subsidiary camp set up above eastern end of Straumpollen Bay, on the southern coast of Geographical Society Ø. Lat. 72°54'N, long. 22°37'W. (Danmark-Gronland 1:250,000 Sheet 72 Ø.1)
Dimensions:
  • Picture: Width: 220mm, height: 152mm
  • mount: Dimensions: ?