An expedition member, Augustine Courtauld, volunteered to serve as a solo observer for a five-month tour of duty here during the height of the 1930-1931 winter.
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The expedition, led by Gino Watkins, aimed to draw improved maps and charts of poorly understood sections of Greenland's coastline, and to gather climate data from the coast and interior icecap during the north polar winter.
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In 1931 he was appointed to the British Arctic Air Route Expedition to Greenland (1930–31) as surveyor and pilot.