Cartographic expeditions to Greenland
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Expeditions[edit]
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Sketch map of the Arctic coasts as mapped around 1900. The largest white gaps are in NE Greenland and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Note that most of Axel Heiberg Island and several more islands named by Otto Sverdrup are missing. Note also Robert Peary's postulated strait between Peary Land and North Greenland - a claim disproven by the First Thule Expedition led by Knud Rasmussen and Peter Freuchen. From Ostenfeld, C.H. (1902) Flora Arctica, Part 1. Copenhagen, Nordiske Forlag.
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Notes and references[edit]
- ^ Recovering remains of the fatal Denmark Expedition
- ^ depot-laying for Roald Amundsen's polar drift in Maud
- ^ commemorating the bicentennial jubilee of Hans Egede's landing in Greenland
- ^ From Thule across Arctic Canada to Nome, Alaska
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