Daneborg
Daneborg (or Daneborg Station) is a station on the south coast of
airstrip (ICAO
: BGDB).
History
The previous sledge patrol headquarters,
Eskimonaes
(Eskimonæs), 27 km southwest of later Daneborg at
Dødemandsbugten on the south coast of David Armine Howarth in his 1951 book The Sledge Patrol.[2]
The station at the site of the current Daneborg was originally established in summer 1944, during World War II, under the command of Captain Strong of
Storis near the trapping station Sandodden
, as an American military weather station, and staffed with six men of the 8th Weather Squadron Detachment.
At the end of the war, the station was taken over by the North East Greenland Sledge Patrol as their new regional headquarters and named Daneborg.[3] Part of the station was built by material left behind at the German wartime station Lille Koldeway further north, which had been established by Operation Edelweiss II.
Climate
Daneborg has a polar climate (Köppen ET). With very low annual rain or snowfall it has strong desert influences.
Climate data for Daneborg (1981-2010 normals) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 8.5 (47.3) |
6.2 (43.2) |
2.0 (35.6) |
6.0 (42.8) |
10.3 (50.5) |
24.1 (75.4) |
24.1 (75.4) |
22.4 (72.3) |
12.3 (54.1) |
9.3 (48.7) |
6.8 (44.2) |
3.3 (37.9) |
24.1 (75.4) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −16.3 (2.7) |
−16.7 (1.9) |
−16.5 (2.3) |
−9.8 (14.4) |
−1.9 (28.6) |
3.8 (38.8) |
7.0 (44.6) |
6.4 (43.5) |
0.2 (32.4) |
−8.2 (17.2) |
−13.2 (8.2) |
−15.5 (4.1) |
−6.6 (20.1) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −18.9 (−2.0) |
−19.2 (−2.6) |
−19.1 (−2.4) |
−12.8 (9.0) |
−4.6 (23.7) |
1.7 (35.1) |
4.8 (40.6) |
4.3 (39.7) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
−9.9 (14.2) |
−15.4 (4.3) |
−18.0 (−0.4) |
−9.0 (15.8) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −21.4 (−6.5) |
−21.6 (−6.9) |
−21.6 (−6.9) |
−15.7 (3.7) |
−7.2 (19.0) |
−0.4 (31.3) |
2.6 (36.7) |
2.1 (35.8) |
−3.4 (25.9) |
−11.5 (11.3) |
−17.6 (0.3) |
−20.5 (−4.9) |
−11.3 (11.7) |
Record low °C (°F) | −41.0 (−41.8) |
−42.8 (−45.0) |
−41.1 (−42.0) |
−35.0 (−31.0) |
−23.9 (−11.0) |
−9.2 (15.4) |
−8.4 (16.9) |
−11.8 (10.8) |
−8.1 (17.4) |
−30.7 (−23.3) |
−35.0 (−31.0) |
−38.9 (−38.0) |
−42.8 (−45.0) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 7.8 (0.31) |
16.6 (0.65) |
6.2 (0.24) |
2.0 (0.08) |
4.4 (0.17) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
2.7 (0.11) |
4.4 (0.17) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
55.0 (2.17) |
Source: Météo Climat[4] [5] |
See also
References
- ^ Norrit, Palle. "THE SIRIUS SLEDGE PATROL". Archived from the original on April 21, 2011. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ^ David Howarth, The Sledge Patrol: One of the Greatest Adventure Stories of World War II, (1951)
- ^ Daneborg Weather Station
- ^ "Météo climat stats for Daneborg". Météo Climat. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ^ "Météo climat stats extremes for Daneborg". Météo Climat. Retrieved 21 March 2017.