Isachsen Land

Abstract

... My flight north touched briefly at Goose Bay, Labrador, and thence continued northward over Greenland to Thule, where I spent a happy evening with Dalkild a Danish meteorological scientist, and talked with Ootah who had been with Peary, and others who had travelled with Rasmussen. The next day we flew into Resolute Bay on Cornwallis Island. Here we remained for three weeks getting our supplies ready for an airlift to Isachsen Land where we were to establish a joint Canadian-United States weather station. We flew several reconnaissance flights over Isachsen Land before finding a spot that looked likely for landing an aircraft. Finally early in April a safe landing was effected and eventually a mound of some 160 tons of equipment was made on the sea ice. ...