 He was impressed by some of the women, finding them more beautiful and cleaner compared with the West Greenlandic women he had known.In June 1870 Iluileq was the place where the crew of the "Hansa", the supply ship of the Second German North Polar Expedition was finally able to land after their ship became separated from the "Germania", drifted with the ice pack and sank.The crew drifted on the sea ice southward and after nearly eleven months finally reached Iluileq by boat.