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11-708: This peninsula was named by Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen , leader of the Danmark expedition , to commemorate its survey by the Second German North Polar Expedition led by Carl Koldewey in 1869 on the vessel Germania and as a compliment to Alfred Wegener , the German member of the Danmark expedition . In central Germania Land there is a cairn erected by the members of the Second German North Polar Expedition on 15 April 1870 in order to mark

22-520: A fjord structure, Seal Lake and Annex Lake . The Danmarkshavn weather station is on the southern shore of the Germania Land Peninsula. It was named by the 1906–08 Danmark Expedition after 'Danmark', the ship of the expedition which wintered there. , This Greenland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (15 January 1872 – 25 November 1907)

33-549: A return to the ship that spring was impossible, and they were forced to spend the summer in the area of the Denmark Fjord without the necessary footgear for hunting in the stony area. The need for food for men and dogs forced them to reduce their three dogteams to one. Finally, in September, they were able to start their return journey on the new frozen sea ice, around the northeastern corner of Greenland. However, when they arrived at

44-502: Is a fjord in north-eastern Greenland . It was named after Niels Peter Høeg Hagen , the cartographer of the main exploration team of the ill-fated Denmark expedition . It opens into the southern shore of the Independence Fjord at its northern end, between J.C. Christensen Land to the west and Mylius-Erichsen Land to the east, near the confluence of Denmark Sound and Independence Fjord. The Hagen Glacier has its terminus at

55-545: The Eskimo . The return journey of the expedition to Upernavik across the ice of Melville Bay was the first sledge crossing on record. As commander of the Denmark Expedition (1906–08) Mylius-Erichsen undertook and carried out the task of exploring and charting the entire coastline of unknown northeast Greenland by three months' field work. The expedition made sledge journeys of more than 4000 miles (6,436 km), exceeding

66-526: The Peary Channel does not exist. Mylius-Erichsen established the continuity of Greenland from Cape Farewell , 60° N, to the most northern land ever reached, 83° 39' N. He also discovered and explored the great fiords of Danmark , Hagen , and Brønlund . Misled by existing maps, Mylius-Erichsen with Niels Peter Høeg Hagen and the Greenlander Jørgen Brønlund so prolonged his journey that

77-616: The farthest northern point they reached. Germania Land is located in King Frederick VIII Land , in the Northeast Greenland National Park , between the Skaerfjord and Dove Bay . Store Koldewey island lies south of Cape Bismarck , the southeastern point of the peninsula. The Musk Ox Mountains (Moskusoksefjeldene) are a hill range located east of Hvalrosodden, a small peninsula. There are also two lakes with

88-401: The maps wrongly placed Greenland Sea—to Spitzbergen . Mylius-Erichsen's own exploration proved that Peary Channel did not exist. Two years later Ejnar Mikkelsen (1880–1971), leader of a new Danish Greenland expedition, assumed the channel existed until he found Mylius-Erichsen's report in a cairn at the head of Danmark Fjord , where Mylius-Erichsen had written emphatically that: ...

99-501: The record of any single Arctic force. The main travel, excluding duplications, of Johan Peter Koch was some 1250 miles (2011 km), and that of Mylius-Erichsen must have exceeded 1000 miles (1609 km). Their explorations showed that Robert Peary 's chart of a coast trending southeast from Navy Cliff was radically incorrect. Instead the shore ran to the northeast, adding about 100,000 square miles (259,000 km ) to Greenland and extending it about halfway from Navy Cliff—where

110-569: The southern shore of Mallemuk Mountain , they found open water and were forced to travel inland. En route, Mylius-Erichsen and Hagen perished of starvation, exhaustion, and cold walking on the ice of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden . Hagen's map sketches and the body of Brønlund together with his diary were found next spring by Koch in Lambert Land . Some cairn reports, left at Danmark Fjord by Mylius-Erichsen, were found and brought to Copenhagen by Ejnar Mikkelsen in 1912. Hagen Fjord Hagen Fjord

121-501: Was a Danish author, ethnologist, and explorer, from Ringkøbing . He was most notably an explorer of Greenland . With Count Harald Moltke and Knud Rasmussen Mylius-Erichsen formed the Danish Literary Expedition (1902–04) to West Greenland, and, in the early stages (1902), discovered, near Evighedsfjord , two ice-free mountain ranges. The party later proceeded to Cape York and lived for 10 months in native fashion with

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