Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland: Sent by Order of the King of Denmark, in Search of the Lost Colonies, under the Command of Captain W. A. Graah of the Danish Royal Navy

Wilhelm August Graah; George Gordon Macdougall

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Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland

Sent by Order of the King of Denmark, in Search of the Lost Colonies, under the Command of Captain W. A. Graah of the Danish Royal Navy

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Wilhelm August Graah
Translated by George Gordon Macdougall

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: October 2014
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781107479814
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107479814

Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
Subjects:: Geography, Historical Geography

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In 1828 a Danish expedition was sent out from Copenhagen under the command of the naval officer and explorer Wilhelm August Graah (1793–1863). Its goal was to locate lost Norse settlements on the coast of Greenland, which had existed in certain places from around the turn of the millennium until their collapse some centuries later. The Danes did not find any settlement where they searched on the eastern coast, and the men endured harrowing conditions and near starvation during three winters. First published in Danish in 1832 and reissued here in its 1837 English translation, Graah's work opens with a brief history of the exploration and colonisation of Greenland before recounting his own expedition. Observations on the Greenlandic Inuit are incorporated as well. Addressing what was known about the Norse settlements at that time, the appendix also contains the expedition's scientific observations.

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Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland

Sent by Order of the King of Denmark, in Search of the Lost Colonies, under the Command of Captain W. A. Graah of the Danish Royal Navy

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

PREFACE
pp iii-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO W. A. GRAAH, ESQ., FIRST LIEUTENANT, ROYAL NAVY
pp vii-xiii

INSTRUCTIONS FOR MR. VAHL, AS NATURALIST TO THE EXPEDITION
pp xiii-xvi

INTRODUCTION
pp 1-16

VOYAGE TO GREENLAND.—1828
pp 17-24

VOYAGE IN A BOAT TO JULIANA'S-HOPE, DETENTION THERE, AND AT NENNORTALIK.—1828—29
pp 25-54

EXPEDITION TO THE EAST COAST.—1829
pp 54-110

WINTERING AT NUKARBIK; WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE CLIMATE, POPULATION, &c. OF THE EAST COAST.—1829—30
pp 110-130

FRUITLESS ATTEMPT TO PENETRATE FURTHER NORTH—RETURN
pp 130-152

APPENDIX
pp 153-154

I - On the Situation of the East and West Bygds; with Remarks on Eggers' and Wormskiold's Treatises on that subject
pp 155-176

II - Botany and Zoology
pp 177-180

III - Temperature of the Sea
pp 181-181

IV - Magnetic Observations
pp 182-183

V - Table of Latitudes and Longitudes
pp 184-186

Details of Experiments on the Intensity of the Magnetic Force
pp 187-199

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