UPDATED - Seven Hours, a Rubber Dinghy and a Shipwreck: The Discovery of Nova Zembla

Date: Thursday 9 April 2020

Time: 19:00 - 21:00

Location: 

Alington House
4 NORTH BAILEY
Durham City DH1 3ET

Email: 

northeast@rmets.org

Please be aware this meeting has now been postponed due to COVID-19. Please keep updated on our event website.

SPEAKER | Dr. Matthew Ayre, University of Calgary

ABSTRACT | At 10:20pm on 18th September 1902 during a blinding snowstorm, the veteran Dundee Arctic whaling vessel Nova Zembla struck of reef on a remote coastline high in the Canadian Arctic. Historical climate research using the extant logbooks from this once industrious trade uncovered clues to the location of Nova Zembla’s final resting place. This revelation, along with a little more historical investigation, lead to two improbable Arctic expeditions and the identification of the first Scottish whaling wreck to be discovered in the Canadian Arctic.