Myggbukta , meaning "Mosquito Bay" in Norwegian, was a Norwegian whaling , meteorological and radio station (Myggbukta Radio/LMG) located on the coast of Eastern Greenland in present-day King Christian X Land .
9-494: The site is located at the head of Mackenzie Bay , in the area of the isthmus of Hold with Hope . Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park . The station was established by Johan A. Olsen in 1922, who named the place appropriately, for it is located in one of the worst mosquito-infested areas of Eastern Greenland ( Norwegian : mygg ). However, on the way back to Norway in 1923,
18-627: Is a large bay of the Greenland Sea in King Christian X Land , Eastern Greenland . Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area. The bay lies north-east of Geographical Society Island . The Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord has its mouth in the bay, between Cape Mackenzie at the eastern end of Geographical Society Island and Cape Franklin , the southern end of the mainland's Gauss Peninsula ; Bantekoe Island lies in
27-425: The NE Greenland National Park area. The bay was named as "Mackenzie’s Inlet" by William Scoresby in 1822, who saw it from a distance and couldn't make out well its shape. Scoresby named it in honour of Scottish geologist and mineralogist Sir George Steuart Mackenzie (1780–1848). During the 1869–70 Second German North Polar Expedition this body of water was surveyed by Carl Koldewey , who observed that it
36-532: The Norwegian sealer ANNI 1 which had brought the expedition to Greenland in 1922 was crushed in the offshore pack ice and all men on board perished. Thus the station was discontinued after only one year of operation. In 1924 Myggbukta station was repaired by Gunnar Isachsen and it was manned by the Foldvik expedition in 1926. In 1930 was completely rebuilt and operation was continuous, sending daily weather reports from
45-686: The more southerly station Antarctic Havn . Together with Jónsbú Station in Hochstetter Foreland , as well as Storfjord , Torgilsbu and Finnsbu further south, Myggbukta became part of the Norwegian contribution to the International Polar Year 1932–33. During World War II , in September 1940, patrol boat Fridtjof Nansen of the Free Norwegian Navy , destroyed the radio equipment, leaving Myggbukta in bad condition. The station
54-483: The northern shore of Foster Bay , between the eastern end of the Gauss Peninsula and the southern shore of the isthmus area of Hold with Hope . Cape Bennet is the southwesternmost headland. The ice conditions in the bay depend from the prevailing winds and tides. This Greenland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Foster Bay Foster Bay ( Danish : Foster Bugt )
63-781: The site. On 27 June 1931 five Norwegian hunters with Hallvard Devold annexed Erik the Red's Land to Norway from the station, proclaiming: "In the presence of Eiliv Herdal, Tor Halle, Ingvald Strøm and Søren Richter, the Norwegian flag is now hoisted in Mosquito Bay. And the land between Carlsberg Fjord in the south and Bessel Fjord in the north is occupied in His Majesty King Haakon 's name." Myggbukta thus served as de facto capital of this short-lived Norwegian territory, although sysselman ("Governor") Helge Ingstad overwintered at
72-489: Was a bay and renamed it "Mackenzie Bay" ( German : Mackenzie Bai ) In 1922 a Norwegian hunting, meteorological and radio station was built by a small recess or cove at the head of the bay and was named " Myggbukta " owing to the many mosquitoes there. The station would become the most important outpost of Norwegian presence in the area, but it was abandoned in 1959. The bay lies in Northeastern Greenland, by
81-415: Was rebuilt in the summer of 1946, resuming operation until 1959 when Norwegian state subsidies were withheld forcing the station to close down. This Greenland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mackenzie Bay Mackenzie Bay ( Danish : Mackenzie Bugt ) is a bay of the Greenland Sea in King Christian X Land , Greenland . Administratively it belongs to
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