The Michigan. Pan American Airways Greenland Expedition: Preliminary Results

rT HE University of Michigan-Pan American Airways Greenland Expedition was organized in the spring of 1932 to make certain glaciological investigations and to take part in the Second International Polar Year program. We established our base station on the Upper Nugssuak near the Cornell Glacier in the Upernivik district on the west coast of Greenland (Fig. I), at about latitude 74? I9' N. and longitude 560 o8' W. We planned to carry out the meteorological program of the International Polar Year and also some of the auroral observations. Since we were located in a not too well known part of Greenland, we made some additions to the existing maps, resurveyed Cornell Glacier, which had been mapped in I896 by R. S. Tarr, made the first systematic botanical collection from this area, and conducted special investigations in connection with the study of glaciation. We ran an auxiliary weather station for comparative purposes at the village of Kraulshavn, 30 miles west of our base, and another on the inland ice, about I8o miles in from the front of the ice.