Etah is an abandoned settlement in the Avannaata municipality in northern Greenland. It was a starting point of discovery expeditions to the North Pole...
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Minik Wallace (section Return to Greenland)
October 29, 1918) was an Inughuaq (Inuk) brought as a child in 1897 from Greenland to New York City with his father and others by the explorer Robert Peary...
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MacGregor and overwintered at Etah, Greenland 1938–1939: Mørkefjord expedition was an exploratory expedition to northeast Greenland led by Eigil Knuth 1946:...
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MacGregor Arctic Expedition (category History of Greenland)
Northern Hemispheric weather forecasting. In late 1937 MacGregor, from Etah, Greenland, gave a long-range weather forecast for 1938, based on the observations...
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was a danger of being frozen in. They arrived at Foulke Fiord, near Etah, Greenland, on 31 August 1937. Before the expedition could get settled on land...
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Foulk Fjord (category Fjords of Greenland)
northern end of Baffin Bay west of the former village of Etah, narrows into Nares Strait between Greenland and Ellesmere Island, and is usually frozen from October...
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Pituffik Space Base (category Installations of the United States Air Force in Greenland)
permafrost which makes them vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Etah, Greenland Annoatok Eastern Air Defense Force (Air Defense Command) Thule people...
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Bentham. With their Greenland Inuit guides, Inutuk and Nukapinguaq, they set up camp at Etah, Greenland in 1934. After wintering Greenland in 1934–1935, they...
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author. He traveled to northern Greenland with Robert Peary in 1908, staying over the winter with the Inughuit at Etah and Annoatok. In the spring of 1909...
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situated on the northern tip of Axel Heiberg Island, 320 mi (510 km) from Etah, Greenland. It was reached by Robert Peary in June 1906, and was the starting...
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David Haig-Thomas, along with their Greenland Inuit guides, Inutuk and Nukapinguaq, they set up camp at Etah, Greenland, in 1934. From the camp Inutuk, Nukapinguaq...
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own Arctic Expedition from July 1, 1937, through October 4, 1938 to Etah, Greenland. It was MacGregor and his expedition that first proposed the need for...
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1936 45 Schlossbach Field 1936–1938 46–47 MacGregor Arctic Expedition Etah, Greenland 1939–1940 48–50 United States Antarctic Service Expedition (Byrd's...
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Carey Islands (redirect from Carey Islands, Greenland)
municipality, northwest Greenland. Located relatively far offshore the Carey Islands are the westernmost point of Greenland as a territory. The sea surrounding...
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involved in the final push to find the island from the village of Etah in northern Greenland. Instead, he and fellow Illinois alumnus Walter Elmer Ekblaw were...
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Circle on the west coast of Greenland, between 75–80° N and 58–74° W. The northernmost settlement was at the village of Etah (at 78° 19' N), but it was...
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Inglefield Land (category Geography of Greenland)
Culture and Thule Culture. The last inhabited settlement in the region was Etah, which is now abandoned. The region stretches from Cape Alexander to the...
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Björling–Kallstenius Expedition (redirect from Swedish NW Greenland Expedition)
reached Godhavn in Greenland. The exact history of the expedition is not well known, however it appears that their plan was to sail to Etah and hire local...
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Qaanaaq Municipality (category Former municipalities of Greenland)
of population concentration in the towns is observed through all of Greenland. Etah, an abandoned village which once was the northernmost village of the...
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Thule Air Station (category Installations of the United States Air Force in Greenland)
were established. Etah Air Station (G-33, AKA "A-site") 78°18′50″N 072°36′35″W / 78.31389°N 72.60972°W / 78.31389; -72.60972 (Etah AS GL G-33) 144.5...
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Smith Sound (category Straits of Greenland)
north to Cape Isabella in the south. On the Greenland side of the sound were the now abandoned settlements of Etah and Annoatok. The first known visit to the...
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Annoatok (category Former populated places in Greenland)
524500; -72.403000, was a small hunting station in Greenland on Smith Sound about 24 km (15 mi) north of Etah. It is now abandoned. Annoatok was used as a base...
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Archaeological Investigations in Peary Land and Adjacent Areas of High Arctic Greenland (= Man & Society. Vol. 29). Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Københavns Universitet...
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transferred to another ship, the Erik, and eventually arrived at Etah, in north-west Greenland, on the second week of August. The next three weeks were spent...
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Polaris expedition (category 19th century in Greenland)
before being rescued. The damaged Polaris was run aground and wrecked near Etah in October 1872. The remaining men were able to survive the winter and were...
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August, the Fram reached a stretch of open water near the Eskimo village of Etah after six days of overcoming ice jams. On 17 August, at Cape York, Sverdrup...
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the surrounding ice while 14 remained aboard. Polaris was run aground near Etah and crushed on October 24. After wintering ashore, the crew sailed south...
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1913-1917, including research on museum collections, at other archives, and at Etah, where the expedition was based. Bowdoin College – official site 43°54′27″N...
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expedition. Led by Elisha Kent Kane, the team explored areas northwest of Greenland, now called Grinnell Land. While failing to determine the fate of Sir...
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back Donald MacMillan's men from the Crocker Land Expedition at Etah, in northern Greenland. En route, the Cluett became ice trapped for two years, giving...
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