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III.—A Chapter in the History of Meteorites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Walter Flight
Walter Flight
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy, British Museum; Assistant Examiner in Chemistry, University of London.
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The interesting story of the discovery of these enormous masses by Prof. Nordenskjöld is already known to the readers of this Magazine through a translation of his original memoir. While exploring in Danish Greenland in 1870, his attention was directed to the possibility that meteorites might be met with in Disko Island, by the accidental discovery of a block of meteoric iron in some ballast which had been taken in at the old whaling-station at Fortuna Bay, near Godhavn, and he urged the Greenlanders to search the district for masses of that metal.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , March 1875 , pp. 115 - 123
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1875

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page 116 note 1 See Geol. Mag., 1872, Vol. IX. Pl. VII. In this map two bays called Laxebugt are given; the one mentioned above is situated to the north of Disko fjord.Google Scholar

page 117 note 1 This Plate will appear in the April Number with Par6 IV. of Dr. Flight's paper. —Edit. Geol. Mag.

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