III.—A Chapter in the History of Meteorites

• Published in: Geological Magazine
• Main Author: Flight, Walter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1875
• Subjects: Geology; Greenland; Nordenskjöld; Fortuna; Fortuna Bay; Godhavn; greenlander*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800157772; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800157772

The interesting story of the discovery of these enormous masses by Prof. Nordenskjöld is already known to the readers of this Magazine through a translation of his original memoir. While exploring in Danish Greenland in 1870, his attention was directed to the possibility that meteorites might be met with in Disko Island, by the accidental discovery of a block of meteoric iron in some ballast which had been taken in at the old whaling-station at Fortuna Bay, near Godhavn, and he urged the Greenlanders to search the district for masses of that metal.