Jonsbu was a Norwegian

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and

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station (Jonsbu Radio/LMW)Kystradio - Stasjonshistorie
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in present-day

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. Administratively the area where the hut stood belongs now to the

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. The site is located in southern Hochstetter Foreland on the western side of Peters Bay, northeast of the mouth of Ardencaple Fjord, about from Cape Klinkerfues.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 124

History

The station was built in 1932 by John Giæver's expedition, about northeast of the mouth of Ardencaple Fjord. It was named ''"Jónsbú"'' after Norwegian journalist

John Schjelderup Giæver John Schjelderup Giæver (31 December 1901 – 9 November 1970) was a Norwegian people, Norwegian author and polar researcher. Jónsbú Station in NE Greenland was named after him. Personal life He was born in Tromsø in Troms, Norway. He ...

(1901–1970), who lived as a hunter and trapper in East Greenland from 1929 to 1934. The station had also been known as ''"Norsk Petersbugt Station"''. Together with Myggbukta, as well as

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, Torgilsbu and Finnsbu further south, Jonsbu became part of the Norwegian contribution to the

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1932–33. The original station was burnt down in August 1943 during

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in an attack by Greenland Patrol ship . The ship destroyed the station in order to prevent its facilities from being used by the military of the

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. In 1948, well after the end of the war, the new Jónsbú Station was built in a new location south of Peters Bay, on the other side of Ardencaple Fjord by the mouth of Kildedal at . In order to differentiate the two huts, the ruin of the old station is also known as ''"Gamle Jonsbu"'' (Old Jonsbu) —although the name "Jónsbú Station" is still officially applied to it— and the new one as ''"Ny Jonsbu"''.

Bibliography

*Spencer Apollonio, ''Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland'', 2008 *Frode Skarstein, ''“A cursed affair”—how a Norwegian expedition to Greenland became the USA’s first maritime capture in World War II.'' Norwegian Polar Institute,

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The Norwegian trapping cabin of Jonsbu, located in Petersbay in eastern Greenland, in 1939

Ruins in Greenland 1932 establishments in Norway History of Greenland {{greenland-geo-stub

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