1934 Wordie Arctic Expedition

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24 May - 3 June
Outward

4 - 25 June
SW Greenland

26 June - 24 July
Greenland Islands

25 July - 10 August
Ice Floe

11 - 31 August
Baffin Island

1 - 15 September
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The expedition crew judged the trip to be an overall failure, since they were unable to cross into Melville Bay to map out new areas of the Arctic (Smith 2004). However, the team returned with a great number of photographs as well as anthropological and archaeological material from their voyage. Perhaps it was not such a failure after all.

Related items:

P.69655.PAT (MAA). Heimen. Baffin Bay, Canada.
Source: T.T. Paterson, Photographer: M. H. W. Ritchie.

Visitor comments:

Wim van Osch (Netherlands)

01/09/2008

In other aspects I consider this expedition rather successful and important. I followed some lectures by the late professor T.T. Paterson in the early seventies about his Management Theory and Job Evaluation which have influenced my professional life since then. In those lectures (and drinking scottish whiskey together afterwards) Paterson often referred to his experiences with the primitive organisation of the hunting teams and the communities of the Inuits he met on this expedition. And the life on board must have influenced his experiences as a trouble shooter for the RAF during the war, as described in his beautiful and famous booklet "Morale of Men in War and Work".

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