XIX. On the Mineralogy of Disko Island

• Published in: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Main Author: Giesecké, Charles
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1823
• Subjects: Greenland; Davis Strait; Disko Bay; greenlander*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800030891; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0080456800030891

Disko Island, (see Plate XV ), is situated in front of a bay in the continent of Greenland, within Davis' Strait, known by the name of Disko Bay , which is sometimes called, particularly in the old Dutch charts, Sydost Bay . This name is derived from an immense curvature, screened by innumerable islands, made in the continent by the sea. Disko Island is situated in 69° 14ʹ of N. latitude. It is distant from the continent towards the south 12 German miles; on the west and north it is surrounded by the sea of Davis' Strait; and on the east, it is separated by a narrow sound, distinguished by the name of Waygat by the Dutch, and by the Greenlanders Ikareseksoak. It stretches northward from 69° 14ʹ to 70° 24ʹ; and its greatest breadth, which is from Fortune Bay on the west, to Flakkerhuk, so named by the Dutch, on the east, is 10 German miles.