The Fox II loading cryolite at Ivigtut - 19th century.

The ship in the photograph is probably the Fox II, a Danish ship. She was massively built with timbers a metre thick so as to withstand the pack ice in the Davis Strait.

The fox II
©Peter Frisch
Fox II loading Cryolite ore at Ivigtut


Martyn Gorman   ·   University of Aberdeen   ·   Department of Zoology ·   © 2002