Cartographic expeditions to Greenland

Expedition Name Year(s) Area explored Leader
Pining-Pothorst Expedition 1472 Southeast? Greenland Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst
Third Northwest Passage Voyage 1578 South Greenland Martin Frobisher
John Davis’ Expeditions to the Northwest Passage 1583-87 Southwest Greenland John Davis
Christian IV's Expeditions 1605-07 Southeast Greenland John Cunningham, Godske Lindenov, Carsten Richardson and James Hall
Hall Expedition 1612 Southwest Greenland James Hall and William Baffin
Baffin Expedition 1616 West Greenland William Baffin
Walløe Expedition 1751-53 Southeast Greenland Peder Olsen Walløe
Ross Expedition 1818 Northwest Greenland John Ross
Scoresby's Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery in the Baffin of Liverpool 1822 East Greenland William Scoresby
Commissioners for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea Expedition 1823 East Greenland Douglas Charles Clavering and Edward Sabine
Graah Expedition 1828-30 Southeast Greenland W. A. Graah
La Lilloise Expedition 1833 Southeast Greenland Jules de Blosseville
Inglefield Expedition 1852 Northwest Greenland Edward Augustus Inglefield
First German North Polar Expedition 1868 Northeast Greenland Carl Koldewey
Second German North Polar Expedition (Germania and Hansa) 1869-70 Northeast Greenland Carl Koldewey
British Arctic Expedition 1875-76 North Greenland George Nares
J. A. D. Jensen Expedition 1878 Inland ice in West Greenland J. A. D. Jensen
Umiak Expedition 1883-85 Southeast Greenland Gustav Holm and Thomas Vilhelm Garde
2nd Dickson expedition led by Nordenskiöld 1883 West Greenland and East Greenland at Ammasalik Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Upernavik Mapping Expedition 1886-87 Northwest Greenland Carl Ryder
Nansen Expedition 1888 Across the inland ice Fridtjof Nansen
Ryder’s East Greenland Expedition (Hekla) 1891-92 Scoresby Sund system Carl Ryder
Peary's North Greenland Expeditions 1891-92 North Greenland Robert Peary
Peary's North Greenland Expeditions 1893-95 North Greenland Robert Peary
Peary's Peary Arctic Club Expedition 1898-1902 North Greenland Robert Peary
Sverdrup Expedition 1898 Northwest Greenland Otto Sverdrup
Carlsbergfund Expedition to East Greenland 1898-1900 Coast between Ammassalik Island and Scoresby Sound G. C. Amdrup
Swedish Greenland Expedition to search for Andrée 1899 Northeast Greenland Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
Literary expedition 1902-04 Northwest Greenland Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen and Knud Rasmussen
Expédition Arctique du Duc D'Orléans 1905 East Greenland Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans
Danmark expedition 1906-08 Northeast-North Greenland Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen
Alabama expedition[1] 1909-12 Northeast Greenland Ejnar Mikkelsen
First Thule Expedition 1912 North Greenland Knud Rasmussen and Peter Freuchen
Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land 1912-13 Crossing the inland ice in North Greenland J.P. Koch
Second Thule Expedition 1916-18 North Greenland Knud Rasmussen
Third Thule Expedition[2] 1919 North Greenland Knud Rasmussen
Fourth Thule Expedition 1919-20 East Greenland Knud Rasmussen
Bicentenary Jubilee Expedition[3] 1921–23 North Greenland Lauge Koch
Fifth Thule Expedition[4] 1921-24 Knud Rasmussen
Sixth Thule Expedition 1931 Northeast Greenland Knud Rasmussen
Three-year Expedition to East Greenland 1931-34 East Greenland Lauge Koch
Mørkefjord Expedition 1938-39 Northeast Greenland Lauge Koch

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Notes and references

  1. ^ Recovering remains of the fatal Danmark expedition
  2. ^ depot-laying for Roald Amundsen's polar drift in Maud
  3. ^ commemorating the bicentennial jubilee of Hans Egede's landing in Greenland
  4. ^ From Thule across Arctic Canada to Nome, Alaska

See also