East Greenland topographic maps

It's not easy to find Greenland topographic maps online, but here is one source:

http://www.nunagis.gl/en/kort/347-greenlandtopograficmaps

http://www.kms.dk/NR/rdonlyres/C7476F85-1408-47C8-8417-588853070396/0/GTK_prod.pdf

The viewer box is small and a bit cumbersome, but you can at least move about and zoom in on the things you want in detail.  Of the things you can choose to look at, the Danish topographic maps are the most useful.  The 1:250,000 series is easy to read, but rather dated.  Sadly, there is no bathymetric data on this series, but the topographic map is a nice example of the mapmaker's art, and I really do like its appearance...... clean, nicely coloured, and uncluttered.

On both sides of the Nordvestfjord entrance are the polynya areas referred to in the last post.  One of the daftest things I ever did was to kayak -- in wood-framed collapsible canvas kayaks -- along the coast from Syd Kap to the bay at the western exit of the Holger Danskes Briller through valley.  We had no wet suits (they had probably not been invented in 1962) and the kayaks were so heavily laden that we could not have escaped from them if we had tipped over.  We were (all 4 of us) seriously scared whenever we entered a field of brash ice -- and the cliffs were so steep as we kayaked beneath the edge of Pythagoras Bjerg that we called the cliffs "Hell's Bells".  There was literally nowhere we could have gone ashore...........

Anyway, we all lived to tell the tale........

Syd Kap Bay - looking east

On the water -- Syd Kap Island in the middle distance

En route to Oxford Gletscher

Waiting for the wind to drop.  The view across Nordvestfjord

View across Nordvestfjord from the bay to the west of Syd Kap

On Oxford Glacier -- the one which we worked on and named.  Our ice temperature measurements showed various anomalies which we put down to faulty equipment.  But without realising it we had discovered one of the essential characteristics of a surging glacier.......