Report on the Danmark expedition to the north-east coast. I'.i 



boat (umiakj as far as the island .AJluk (ca. бО^иУ). Bul Giesecke 

 •lid not reach even so far northward as Walløe, so that in geogra- 

 phical regards his journey resulted in nothing new*. 



The next to be mentioned is the English whaling captain \V. 

 ScoRESBY junr., who had sighted the east coast of Greenland on his 

 whaling voyages both in 1817 and in 1820- and who succeeded in 

 1822 in landing on the coast. This last voyage especially is wmthy 

 of note and may be mentioned in more detail*. 



On June 8th 1822, when Scoresby found himself at 74'Ut3'. the 

 coast came in sight. The ice did not allow him, Imwever. to approach 

 the coast nearer than 10 miles; but in the I'oiluwing days the weather 

 was clear and he was able to make a survey from the ship and chart 

 the coast over a distance of ca. 90 miles. On Juno 18th ho again sighted 

 the coast at 73'01' N. lat. and on July 19th at 71"02' N. lat. On July 

 24th he landed at Cape Lister (70°30') and on the 25th he sailed into 

 Scoresby Sound *. The same day ho landed at Cape Hope and on 

 the following day at Cape Stewart, whilst some of his men went on 

 land at Cape Brewster in the night of the 2öth and 27th. From tho 

 28th to the 30fh he sailed southwards and charted the coast as soen 

 from the ship from Cape Brewster to Cape Barclay ((39 13'). On July 

 30th Scoresby again turned northwards and on August 10th landed 

 on the east coast of Traills Island (72°12'). He sighted the coast 

 several times more before he set sail for England on August 27th. 



Scoresby's voyage was epoch-making. It was Scokksby's gimd 

 fortune to be the first to penetrate wth a vessel through the ice belt 

 and land on the coast and his chart of the outer coast of Greenland 

 from oa. 69^4° It» 75'^ N. lat. was, considering the oircumstaiuos umlor 

 which he worked, a remarkable achievement, even though later exped- 

 itions have boon obliged to improve and supplement it in many details. 



In the following year, 1823, a second English exjiodition under 

 Clavering and Sabine sailed northwards with the east coast of Green- 

 land as goal. Tho vessel of the expedition, tho brig "Griper", was 

 commanded by Clavering and the intention was, that Sabine should 

 land at some northerly point on the east coast and there determine 

 the length of the seconds pendulum, with the object ol .irriving ;i( a 



■ GronJaniis historisktf .Mindesmærker, Bd. Ill, p. 7)iii 



• R. E. Scobe»by-Jai:kso\. "The lite uf William SinniMn '. I.i>ml<>ii 

 lM»;i. pp. Ill and l.'>7, 



• Journ.'d iif a voyage to lh<' N'orlhiTii-U lialc-l''jsliiT_\ ; iiiiliidiii); resi'ar- 

 > he» and diM oviTif-s on the Kasleni coast of \Vfsl-( >ri-cnlaiid, inaili' in Ihi' sutnm<-r of 

 1422in th<-.<ihi|)"Baflln" of LiviTpool, by WilliamScohk.siiy junior, Kdinliur^b \^'''Л. 



• Scoresby .Sound, which .ScoHE.tu^ called after his father, was most probably 

 disrovered already in 1761, (or our countryman, the Frieshindcr V'olkkht Bohn, 

 on a chart ilrawn by himself, had marked off a larj;«' fjoril at 70°4ii', which in 

 17»jl hi- had i-nltTcd with ,i I)ulch чч-яж-!. .Sv«- (Irnnlaiids hi>torisk<' Mindcsnui-rkri. 

 M III Note p. 7711. 



