McCabe, Arctic papers

This material is held atScott Polar Research Institute Archives, University of Cambridge

  • Reference
    • GB 15 L H McCabe / Arctic papers
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1936-1952
  • Name of Creator
  • Physical Description
    • Diaries, papers, maps

Scope and Content

  • MS 424;MSM Plane table survey, 1936, scale 1:31,680
  • MS 1544/2;BJ Diary, 1937, 1 volume
  • MS 1554/1;BJ Diary, 1936, 1 volume
  • MS 1552/2;BJ Diary, 1937, 1 volume
  • MS 1554/3;BJ Diary, 1938, 1 volume
  • MS 1554/4/1;BJ Photograph album
  • MS 1554/4/2;BJ Cambridge Spitsbergen Expedition, 1938, typescript, 1 volume
  • MS 1554/4/3;BJ Cambridge Spitsbergen Expedition, 1938, The Coastal Cruise, typescript
  • MS 1554/4/4;BJ Map [McCabe Fjellet, Spitsbergen]
  • MS 1554/4/5;BJ The Sphere, 29 April 1939
  • MS 1554/4/6;BJ Spitsbergen Expedition, source unknown
  • MS 1554/4/7;BJ Nivation and Corrie Erosion in West Spitsbergen, 1939 [Offprint from Geographical journal]
  • MS 1554/4/8;BJ Summer on Spitsbergen, 1939 [From the Kitchener Scholar]
  • MS 1554/4/9;BJ Cambridge Spitsbergen Expedition, 1949 1952 [Offprint from Geographical Journal]

Administrative / Biographical History

The papers relate to McCabe's time in Iceland during the Cambridge University Expedition to Iceland, 1936 and to subsequent visits to Spitsbergen