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There is one place on the coast of which they stood in some dread – the great glacier of Puisortok. Travelling in early summer in their umiaks, they necessarily hug the coast, and utilize the narrow leads that exist between the pack-ice and the glacier. The literal meaning of the name is “the thing that comes up”, as this peculiar glacier often calves by huge pieces breaking off underwater, which come to the top and shoot like breaching whales into the air. Instant destruction is the penalty for misjudgement or mere bad luck.

I remember an old hunter saying: “Do not speak, do not eat, until Puisortok is passed.”

Northern Lights: The Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition 1930–31 (1932)

Frederick Spencer Chapman