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The crater lake of Pingo No 3 on Schuchert Dal with cloud-covered Pingo Pass, North-East Greenland


Accession no.:	Y: 2012/20/66
Object name:	Chalk and charcoal sketch
Title:	The crater lake of Pingo No 3 on Schuchert Dal with cloud-covered Pingo Pass, North-East Greenland
Description:	This was one of two active pingos found on edge of Schuchert flood plain between Pingo Pass to the north and our subidiary camp on eastern side of Schuchert Dal opposite outlet of Roslin Glacier. (The two pingos were surveyed in the 1960s by geographers J. Cruikshank and Eric Colhoun from Queen's University, Belfast.)
Medium:	Chalk and charcoal sketch
Artist:	Woolmore, Ray
Note:	Pingo No 3 north of subsidiary camp on eastern side of Schuchert Dal. Approx. Lat. 71°45'N, long. 24°20'W. (Danmark-Gronland 1:250,000 Sheet 71Ø.2 Stauning Alper.)
Dimensions:	Picture: Width: 220mm, height: 152mm mount: Dimensions: ?

Museum catalogue: Polar Art Collection