The Second Greenland Expedition of the University of Michigan

Abstract

THE first Greenland Expedition of the University of Michigan was carried out in the summer season of 1926 within the Holstensborg distric of south-west Greenland and was preliminary only in its nature. It was to pave the way for the second expedition, that of 1927–28, the primary object of which was to be to set up upon a mountain, as near as might be practicable to the inland-ice of Greenland, a meteorological and aerological station, and to continue observations there for the period of at least a year. Some account of the first expedition appeared in the January number of 1927 of the Geographical Review. The second expedition left Copenhagen on June 4, 1927, by Danish Government steamer a week behind the scheduled sailing of this vessel. The expedition reached Holstensborg, south-west Greenland, on June 20, and two days later left for the Söndre Ströfjord (Kangerdlugssuak) on the Hvalrossen, a 22-ton motor schooner hired from the Danish Government at Holstensborg.