Field Notebook: Greenland 1987a
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At 9:30 in the am. - A little North and a Southward specie either full or side death. At 10.55 we are opposite the village of Battle Haven. It is situated on Double Island and lies in a through open to the east and west. Here is a chapel, hospital and probably a dozen other houses. A little to the south of this village is where the Miranda put in for repairs. This is an ideal region for a petrographer. The granite is free of dark brown intrusion of lava. The region we have just passed by is described in detail by A.D. Poetsland In the Bull. American Geographic Society, vol xx no 4, 1888. Later in the day we are more out to sea and the coast cannot be made out in detail; Many icebergs are stranded along the coast north of Cape Bluff. The mountains in this region are less rounded than those further south and the crest appears strongly mamillated. Of course this may due to the distance from shore which I judge to be less than 15 miles from the ship. The number of bergs increase the evening.