Some observations on the shore fauna of Baffin Island

• Main Author: D. V. Ellis
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1955
• Subjects: Arctic; Baffin Island; Cumberland Sound; Exeter Sound; Totnes Road; Baffin
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.487.6784; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic8-4-224.pdf

T HE first trained biologist to examine the shores of Baffin Island was Ludwig Kumlien who was a member of the Howgate Polar expedition 1877-8 which wintered in Cumberland Sound (Kumlien, 1879). Previous to his report at least one collection was known, for Hancock (1846) describes a series of shells brought back from Cumberland Sound by “Messrs. Warham and Harrison, masters of whaling vessels belonging to the port of Newcastle”. The German polar expedition of 1882-3 also visited Cumberland Sound and the expedition’s doctor, W. Schliephake, collected afew shelled animals (Pfeffer, 1886). Most of the specimens from these last two collections were not from the shore but from shallow water and frequently the exact site was not recorded. So far this century there are reports from six expeditions. Occasional marine biological collections were made by the Neptune expedition of 1903-5 to the eastern Arctic (Dall, 1924). The reports of the Fifth Thule expedition, 1921-4 also contain scattered records and the Godthaab expedition in 1928 took shore and offshore animals from Totnes Road, Exeter Sound (Riis-Carstensen