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

Q2 Earth and Planetary Sciences Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin Pub Date : 2018-08-15 DOI:10.34194/geusb.v41.4344

N. Mikkelsen, A. Kuijpers, S. Ribeiro, M. Myrup, I. Seiding, A. 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).

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欧洲的贸易、捕鲸和西格陵兰岛的气候历史由历史记录、无人机和海洋沉积物记录

17 - 19世纪的欧洲贸易和捕鲸活动，在欧洲各地的许多档案中，以船只日志和其他官方文件的形式，提供了西格陵兰岛附近气候和海冰状况的记录。这些文件与来自海洋沉积物的证据相结合，有助于描述与该地区人类活动有关的总体气候变化，特别是海冰体积变化。努克的格陵兰国家博物馆和档案馆(NKA)拥有独特的原始文件收藏，这些文件详细介绍了天气和冰情，以及丹麦政府文件记录的殖民地中心和前哨的日常生活。这些文件还揭示了1779年以来因纽特人和欧洲人之间互动的许多方面。从Nuuk的档案中检索到的信息与海洋沉积物岩心的古环境调查结果相结合，揭示了气候变化和海冰变化。这些信息还得到了一个广泛的实地项目的数据补充，该项目使用无人机记录了Disko Bugt地区捕鲸时期的陆上遗迹(图1)。

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期刊介绍： GEUS Bulletin publishes geoscience research papers, monographs and map descriptions with a focus on Denmark, Greenland and the wider North Atlantic and Arctic region. We welcome submissions that fit this remit. Specifically, we publish: 1.Short articles intended as rapid communications that are of immediate interest to the international geoscience community (these include new research, datasets, methods or reviews) 2.Regular-length articles that document new research or a review of a topic of interest 3.Monographs (single volume works, by arrangement with the editorial office) 4.Maps and descriptive texts (produced by GEUS for Greenland and Denmark, by arrangement with the editorial office) GEUS Bulletin serves a broad geoscientific readership from research, industry, government agencies, NGOs and special interest groups.