Cartographic expeditions to Greenland

Expeditions

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
Danish Allday Expedition	1579	South Greenland	John Allday
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 (James Hall)
Hall Expedition	1612	Southwest Greenland	James Hall and William Baffin
English Button Expedition	1612–13	Southwest Greenland	Button Josias Hubert
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	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	1919	North Greenland	Knud Rasmussen
Fourth Thule Expedition	1919-20	East Greenland	Knud Rasmussen
Bicentenary Jubilee Expedition	1921–23	North Greenland	Lauge Koch
Fifth Thule Expedition	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

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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See also

• Geography of Greenland
• Arctic exploration
• List of Arctic expeditions