Cartographic expeditions to Greenland

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This is a list of recognised pioneering expeditions to Greenland that contributed to the cartography of the territory.

Expedition  | Year(s)  | Area  | Leader

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Third Northwest Passage Voyage  | 1578  | South Greenland  | Martin Frobisher
Danish Allday Expedition  | 1579  | South Greenland  | James Allday[1]
Danish Heinason Expedition  | 1581  | South Greenland  | Magnus Heinason[2][3]
John Davis' Expeditions to the Northwest Passage | 1583–1587 | Southwest Greenland  | John Davis
Christian IV's Expeditions  | 1605–1607  | Southeast Greenland  |

* John Cunningham
* Godske Lindenov
* Carsten Richardson
* James Hall

Hall Expedition  | 1612  | Southwest Greenland  | James Hall and William Baffin
English Button Expedition  | 1612–1613  | Southwest Greenland  | Josias Hubert
Baffin Expedition  | 1616  | West Greenland  | William Baffin
Walløe Expedition  | 1751–1753  | 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  | 1828–1830  | 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) | 1869–1870  | Northeast Greenland  | Carl Koldewey
British Arctic Expedition | 1875–1876  | North Greenland  | George Nares
J. A. D. Jensen Expedition  | 1878  | Inland ice in West Greenland  | J. A. D. Jensen
Lady Franklin Bay Expedition | 1881-1884  | Nares Strait area in far northern Greenland  | Adolphus Greely
Umiak Expedition  | 1883–1885  | Southeast Greenland  | Gustav Holm and Thomas Vilhelm Garde
Second Dickson expedition  | 1883  | West Greenland and East Greenland at Ammasalik  | Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Upernavik Mapping Expedition  | 1886–1887  | Northwest Greenland  | Carl Ryder
Nansen Expedition  | 1888[4] | Across the inland ice  | Fridtjof Nansen
Ryder's East Greenland Expedition  | 1891–1892  | Scoresby Sund system  | Carl Ryder
Peary's North Greenland Expeditions  | 1891–1892  | North Greenland  | Robert Peary
Swedish NW Greenland Expedition  | 1892  | Northwest Greenland  | Johan Alfred Björling
Peary's North Greenland Expeditions  | 1893–1895  | North Greenland  | Robert Peary
Ingolf Expedition  | 1895–1896  | East Greenland  | C.F. Wandel
Peary's 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  | 1902–1904  | Northwest Greenland  | Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen and Knud Rasmussen
Duke of Orléans Arctic Expedition  | 1905  | Northeast Greenland
Denmark expedition | 1906–1908  | Northeast Greenland  | Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen[5]
Alabama Expedition  | 1909–1912  | Northeast Greenland  | Ejnar Mikkelsen[6]
First Thule Expedition  | 1912  | North Greenland  | Knud Rasmussen and Peter Freuchen
Second Swiss Expedition  | 1912  | Across the inland ice  | Alfred de Quervain
Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land | 1912–1913  | Across the inland ice  | J.P. Koch
Second Thule Expedition  | 1916–1918  | North Greenland  | Knud Rasmussen
Third Thule Expedition  | 1919  | North Greenland  | Knud Rasmussen
Fourth Thule Expedition  | 1919–1920  | East Greenland  | Knud Rasmussen
Bicentenary Jubilee Expedition  | 1921–1923  | North Greenland  | Lauge Koch
1929–1930 Expedition to East Greenland  | 1929–1930  | Northeast Greenland  | Lauge Koch
German Greenland Expedition | 1930–1931  | Across the inland ice  | Alfred Wegener[7]
British Arctic Air Route Expedition | 1930–1931  | East Greenland  | Gino Watkins
Sixth Thule Expedition  | 1931  | Northeast Greenland  | Knud Rasmussen
1932–1933 Greenland expedition  | 1932–1933  | East Greenland  | Gino Watkins until his death, then John Rymill
Gefion Expedition  | 1932  | Northeast Greenland  | Johannes Gerhardt Jennov and Alf Trolle
Scoresby Sund Committee's 2nd East Greenland Expedition  | 1932  | East Greenland  | Ejnar Mikkelsen
Three-year Expedition to East Greenland | 1931–1934  | East Greenland  | Lauge Koch[8]
British East Greenland Expedition  | 1935–1936  | East Greenland  | Lawrence Wager
Cartographic Air Expedition  | 1938  | North Greenland  | Lauge Koch
Mørkefjord Expedition  | 1938–1939  | Northeast Greenland  | Eigil Knuth
Norwegian-French Expedition  | 1938–1939  | Northeast Greenland  | Gaston Micard
Danish Peary Land Expedition.[9] | 1947–1950  | North Greenland  | Eigil Knuth
British North Greenland Expedition  | 1952–1954  | North and Northeast Greenland  | James Simpson
1956–1958 Expedition to East Greenland  | 1958–1959  | East Greenland  | Lauge Koch

## See also

* Geography of Greenland
* Arctic exploration
* List of Arctic expeditions

## References

1. ↑ Vahl et al., p. 6.
2. ↑ Vahl et al., p. 7.
3. ↑ Halvor Kjellberg. "Mogens Heinessøn". Norsk biografisk leksikon. https://nbl.snl.no/Mogens_Heinessøn.
4. ↑ Jaeger, Gilbert (2001). "On the history of the international protection of refugees". Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge 83 (843). doi:10.1017/S1560775500119285. https://www.icrc.org/ara/assets/files/other/727_738_jaeger.pdf.
5. ↑ G. Amdrup: Report on the Danmark Expedition to the North-East Coast of Greenland 1906–1908. In: Meddelelser om Grønland 41, 1913, pp. 1–270
6. ↑ Vahl et al., p. 96.
7. ↑ The German Greenland Expedition 1930–1931
8. ↑ The Three-Year Expedition 1931-34
9. ↑ Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 50 (1950) Dansk Pearyland Ekspedition. Sidste års meteorologi og topografisk overblik

## Bibliography

* Greenland. 1. The Commission for the Direction of the Geological and Geographical Investigations in Greenland. 1928. https://archive.org/details/greenland00vahl_0/page/6/mode/2up.

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