Greenland, icebergs at Dicksons Fjord and Hisinger Gletscher

• Main Author: Boyd, Louise Arner, 1887-1972
• Other Authors: Gift of Louise A. Boyd, 1931-1933.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1931
• Subjects: Louise A. Boyd Expedition of East Greenland; 1931; Bodies of water; Fjords; Mountains; Glaciers; Discovery & exploration; Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration; Arctic; Dicksons Fjord; Greenland; Hisinger Gletscher; Kjerulf Fjord; Long Point; East Greenland; glacier; Ice cap; Iceberg*
• Online Access: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/polar/id/268

August 6, 1931. Dickson [Dicksons] Fjord. Extreme inner end. Face of Hisinger Glacier [Hisinger Gletscher] extends in a long point into inner end of this fjord. In background on left; north side of Dickson [Dicksons] Fjord. In background on right; mountain range forming south side of Dickson [Dicksons] Fjord, curving sharply to N.N.E., making inner end appear like large lake. See photos 27-1-23; 27-1-22 and 26-H-9 - taken at 4:55 P.M. August 2nd, from furthest point E.N.E. reached by L.A.B. on trip through from Kjerulfs [Kjerulf] Fjord. The identical point of land at water's edge (on left); identical mountains with peak to the N.E.; design of ice-cap and glacier descending side of mts. [mountains] from ice-cap all show exactly the same in photos taken August 2nd (trip from Kjerulfs [Kjerulf] Fjord through to Dickson [Dicksons]) and in photos of August 6th taken from S.W. side of inner end of Dickson [Dicksons] Fjord! See photos 35-2 and 36-19. Photo taken from southern side of extreme inner end of Dickson [Dicksons] Fjord, looking E.N.E.