Cartographic expeditions to Greenland

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

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Expedition ! Year(s) ! Area ! Leader
Third Northwest Passage Voyage \| 1578 \| South Greenland \| Martin Frobisher
Danish Allday Expedition \| 1579 \| South Greenland \| James Allday{{sfn\|Vahl et al.\|p=6}}
Danish Heinason Expedition \| 1581 \| South Greenland \| Magnus Heinason{{sfn\|Vahl et al.\|p=7}}{{cite web\|url=https://nbl.snl.no/Mogens_Heiness%C3%B8n\|title=Mogens Heinessøn\|publisher=Norsk biografisk leksikon\|author=Halvor Kjellberg \|access-date=7 December 2022}}
John Davis' Expeditions to the Northwest Passage \| {{nowr\|1583–1587}} \| Southwest Greenland \| John Davis
Christian IV's Expeditions \| 1605–1607 \| Southeast Greenland \| {{ubl\|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{{cite journal \|doi=10.1017/S1560775500119285 \|url=https://www.icrc.org/ara/assets/files/other/727_738_jaeger.pdf \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011130607/https://www.icrc.org/ara/assets/files/other/727_738_jaeger.pdf \|archive-date=11 October 2017 \|url-status=live \|first1=Gilbert \|last1=Jaeger \|year=2001 \|title=On the history of the international protection of refugees \|journal=Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge \|volume=83 \|issue=843 \|s2cid=145129127 }} \| 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 \| Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans{{cite journal \|last1=Barr \|first1=William \|title=The Arctic voyages of Louis-Philippe-Robert, Duc d'Orléans \|journal=Polar Record \|date=2010 \|volume=46 \|issue=1 \|pages=21–43 \|doi=10.1017/S0032247409008377\|s2cid=129100092 \|author1-link=William Barr (historian) }}
Denmark expedition \| 1906–1908 \| Northeast Greenland \| Ludvig Mylius-ErichsenG. Amdrup: [https://archive.org/stream/meddelelseromgrn411913de#page/n15/mode/2up Report on the Danmark Expedition to the North-East Coast of Greenland 1906–1908]. In: Meddelelser om Grønland 41, 1913, pp. 1–270
Alabama Expedition \| 1909–1912 \| Northeast Greenland \| Ejnar Mikkelsen{{sfn\|Vahl et al.\|p=96}}
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[https://www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/wegener-diaries/expedition3 The German Greenland Expedition 1930–1931]
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[http://wayback-01.kb.dk/wayback/20100504143133/http://www2.kb.dk/kb/dept/nbo/kob/danmarkskort/eng.treaarseks.htm# The Three-Year Expedition 1931-34]
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.[https://tidsskrift.dk/geografisktidsskrift/article/view/48443/61338 Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 50 (1950) Dansk Pearyland Ekspedition. Sidste års meteorologi og topografisk overblik] \| 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

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Expedition

! Year(s)

! Area

! Leader

Third Northwest Passage Voyage

| 1578

| South Greenland

| Martin Frobisher

Danish Allday Expedition

| 1579

| South Greenland

| James Allday{{sfn|Vahl et al.|p=6}}

Danish Heinason Expedition

| 1581

| South Greenland

| Magnus Heinason{{sfn|Vahl et al.|p=7}}{{cite web|url=https://nbl.snl.no/Mogens_Heiness%C3%B8n|title=Mogens Heinessøn|publisher=Norsk biografisk leksikon|author=Halvor Kjellberg

|access-date=7 December 2022}}

John Davis' Expeditions to the Northwest Passage

| {{nowr|1583–1587}}

| Southwest Greenland

| John Davis

Christian IV's Expeditions

| 1605–1607

| Southeast Greenland

| {{ubl|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{{cite journal |doi=10.1017/S1560775500119285 |url=https://www.icrc.org/ara/assets/files/other/727_738_jaeger.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011130607/https://www.icrc.org/ara/assets/files/other/727_738_jaeger.pdf |archive-date=11 October 2017 |url-status=live |first1=Gilbert |last1=Jaeger |year=2001 |title=On the history of the international protection of refugees |journal=Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge |volume=83 |issue=843 |s2cid=145129127 }}

| 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

| Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans{{cite journal |last1=Barr |first1=William |title=The Arctic voyages of Louis-Philippe-Robert, Duc d'Orléans |journal=Polar Record |date=2010 |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=21–43 |doi=10.1017/S0032247409008377|s2cid=129100092 |author1-link=William Barr (historian) }}

Denmark expedition

| 1906–1908

| Northeast Greenland

| Ludvig Mylius-ErichsenG. Amdrup: [https://archive.org/stream/meddelelseromgrn411913de#page/n15/mode/2up Report on the Danmark Expedition to the North-East Coast of Greenland 1906–1908]. In: Meddelelser om Grønland 41, 1913, pp. 1–270

Alabama Expedition

| 1909–1912

| Northeast Greenland

| Ejnar Mikkelsen{{sfn|Vahl et al.|p=96}}

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[https://www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/wegener-diaries/expedition3 The German Greenland Expedition 1930–1931]

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[http://wayback-01.kb.dk/wayback/20100504143133/http://www2.kb.dk/kb/dept/nbo/kob/danmarkskort/eng.treaarseks.htm# The Three-Year Expedition 1931-34]

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.[https://tidsskrift.dk/geografisktidsskrift/article/view/48443/61338 Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 50 (1950) Dansk Pearyland Ekspedition. Sidste års meteorologi og topografisk overblik]

| 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

References

Bibliography

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Cartographic expeditions to Greenland

See also

References

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