European trading, whaling and climate history of west Greenland documented by historical records, drones and marine sediments

Naja Mikkelsen; Antoon Kuijpers; Sofia Ribeiro; Mikkel Myrup; Inge Seiding; Ann E. Lennert

doi:10.34194/geusb.v41.4344

European trading, whaling and climate history of west Greenland documented by historical records, drones and marine sediments

Naja Mikkelsen, Antoon Kuijpers, Sofia Ribeiro, Mikkel Myrup, Inge Seiding, Ann E. Lennert

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The European trading and whaling activities of the 17th– 19th centuries provide records of climate and sea- ice conditions off West Greenland in the form of ships’ logs and other official documents in many archives around Europe. These documents, combined with evidence from marine sediments, help describe climate changes in general, and seaice volume changes in particular, in connection with human activity in the region. The Greenland National Museum & Archives in Nuuk (NKA) hosts a unique collection of original documents presenting detailed insight into weather and ice conditions as well as the daily life of the colonial centres and outposts recorded by the documents of the Danish administration. These documents also reveal many aspects of the interaction between the Inuit and Europeans from 1779 onwards. Information retrieved from the archives in Nuuk has been combined with results from palaeo-environmental investigations of marine sediment cores to unravel climate variability and changes in sea ice. This information has been supplemented with data from an extensive field programme using drones to document onshore remains from the whaling period in the Disko Bugt region (Fig. 1).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	67-70
Number of pages	4
Journal	Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin
Volume	41
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v41.4344
Publication status	Published - 2018

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European trading, whaling and climate history of west Greenland documented by historical records, drones and marine sediments

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