XIX. On the Mineralogy of Disko Island
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 innumerabl...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0080456800030891 2024-06-23T07:52:20+00:00 XIX. On the Mineralogy of Disko Island Giesecké, Charles 1823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800030891 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0080456800030891 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh volume 9, issue 2, page 263-272 ISSN 0080-4568 2053-5945 journal-article 1823 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800030891 2024-06-12T04:04:53Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Davis Strait Disko Bay Greenland greenlander* Cambridge University Press Greenland Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 9 2 263 272 |
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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. |
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