Johan Peter Koch

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Johan Peter Koch (1870- ? ) was a Danish captain and explorer of the Arctic dependencies of Denmark, born at Vestenskov. He participated in Amdrup's expedition to east Greenland in 1900 and was one of the general staff of the surveying expeditions expeditions to Iceland in 1903-04. In 1906-08 he was a member if the Mylius-Erichsen expedition to the northeast coast of Greenland, on the death of his chief succeeding to the command. He led a sleigh expedirion on Greenland north to 83° 30' (1907); with the Englishman Tobias searched for Mylius-Erichsen (1908) and in 1912-13 led an expedition over the inland ice of Greenland. Koch received, among other honors, the Vega medal of the Swedish Anthropological and Geographical Society. He became a member of the International Polar Commission.

[edit] Publications

• Meddelelser om Grønland, xxvi, xlvii (50 volumes, Copenhagen, 1876-1912)

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