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19-507: J.P. Koch participated in Amdrup 's expedition to east Greenland in 1900 and was one of the general staff of the surveying expeditions to Iceland in 1903–1904. In 1906–1908 he was a member of the ill-fated Denmark expedition led by Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen , which mapped the last pieces of the northeastern coast of Greenland . On the death of Mylius-Erichsen and two others on a long sled voyage from Danmarkshavn to Peary Land , Koch along with

38-461: A small boat Aggas that navigated through the ice belt in the polar stream and mapped an uncharted route. During the 730 kilometres (450 mi) part of the expedition in Aggas , a 5.6 metres (18 ft) long, 1.4 metres (4 ft 7 in) wide open boat that carried Amdrup, three others including Ejnar Mikkelsen , plus 1,659 kilograms (3,657 lb) of supplies, Amdrup found a dwelling containing

57-472: Is also named for him. Also named on his behalf is Leptognathia amdrupii , which was considered for transfer to the genus Chauliopleona by 2000 and transferred to Chauliopleona amdrupii by 2005. 66th parallel north Download coordinates as: The 66th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 66 degrees north of the Earth 's equatorial plane, about 61 kilometres (38 mi) south of

76-700: Is the highest mountain in this land and also the northernmost basalt mountain in Greenland. On the north side, J.P. Koch land is bounded by Upernavik Icefjord , in the west and south by Eqaluarssuit Fjord ( sv ). The land is about 1010 square-km in area. The J.P. Koch Glacier was named in his honour. This article about an explorer is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Amdrup Vice Admiral Sir Georg Carl Amdrup (November 19, 1866 in Copenhagen , Denmark – January 15, 1947 in Copenhagen), RN

95-521: The Arctic Circle . It crosses the Atlantic Ocean , Europe , Asia and North America . This latitude also roughly corresponds to the minimum latitude in which midnight sun can last all night near the summer solstice. At this latitude midnight sun lasts from about 12 to 29 June, and the sun is visible for 2 hours, 47 minutes during the winter solstice . At midnight on the summer solstice ,

114-597: The Greenlander Tobias Gabrielsen searched for the lost party, and found only the Greenlander Jørgen Brønlund on whose body were recovered the charts hand drawn by Niels Peter Høeg Hagen which completed the map of Greenland. In 1907 Koch, together with Aage Bertelsen , was reported to have first seen Fata Morgana Land ( Danish : Fata Morgana Landet ), a phantom island supposedly lying between NE Greenland and Svalbard. This elusive land

133-628: The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography . He also became a member of the International Polar Commission . J.P. Koch Land 72°35′N 54°15′W  /  72.583°N 54.250°W  / 72.583; -54.250 in north-west Greenland was named after him. This ice-free peninsula is bounded by the Greenland Ice Sheet on the west side. There, next to the glacier, is Pingut  [ sv ] mountain, which

152-437: The vessel Godthaab , and reaching Amassalik ("Angmagssalik") on 31 August. The purpose of the expedition was to identify and examine the then completely unexplored stretch of coast between the 66th parallel north and Scoresbysund at about 70th parallel north . The following year, they traveled the coast north to 67° 22' North, establishing several depots to use for future travel north. During this expedition, Amdrup found

171-479: The furthest north of this survey. Lieutenant Amdrup was the leader of a major Danish expedition in 1898-1900, the Carlsberg Foundation Expedition to East Greenland (Carlsbergfondet Expedition til Ost-Gronland). With him were botanist Christian Krause, ornithologist Knud Poulsen, and the sailors, A. Jakobsen and Soren P. Nielsen. They left Copenhagen on August 16, 1898, sailing from Copenhagen in

190-492: The remains of 38 bodies, from which he inferred that Inuit had been trying to colonize the area. Amdrup and his men were even accused of killing the 38 people, but it was later ascertained that they had starved to death. Having established the fact that there were no other Eskimos on the eastern side of the island other than are known to the Danish missionaries, Amdrup's skeleton find was unusual. Amdrup and his men were picked up by

209-462: The remains of a small, extinct Eskimo settlement. From this find, he brought to Denmark in 1899 a significant ethnographic collection. In 1899, Alfred Gabriel Nathorst sold the Antarctic to Amdrup. On June 15, 1900, Amdrup took an 11-man expedition to East Greenland. This expedition, which cartographer Johan Peter Koch joined, was also known as the ' Carlsberg Foundation Expedition'. The survey

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228-460: The ship Antarctic at Amassalik in September and he returned to Denmark on October 4, with significant collections of botanical, geological, and zoological, specimens. Part of the natural history collection that Amdrup brought back included a live musk ox and ten lemming . He published the expedition results in the "Notice of Grønland", XXVII-XXIX. Swedish and English expeditions that were ongoing at

247-590: The story of the 'Alabama' expedition , 1909-1912 to Amdrup. Amdrup Land ( 80°54′58″N 16°34′59″W  /  80.916°N 16.583°W  / 80.916; -16.583  ( Amdrup Land ) ) in northeastern Greenland was named after him by the Denmark expedition . Another landform named in his honor is Amdrup Fjord 68°12′58″N 32°19′59″W  /  68.216°N 32.333°W  / 68.216; -32.333  ( Amdrup Fjord ) . The Shipbuilding & Engineering Company's ship G.C. Amdrup

266-474: The time did not report the considerable progress that the Danish expedition under Amdrup was able to show. From 1905, Amdrup worked as an Adjutant to his friend, Prince Valdemar of Denmark . He was a member of the Committee for the Denmark expedition to Greenland's northeast coast 1906-1908, and, as the expedition historian, Amdrup wrote the expedition history in the "Notice of Grønland", XLI. In 1913, he

285-565: Was a Danish naval officer, Vice Admiral and Greenland researcher. In 1884, Amdrup, of the Royal Danish Navy, was sent to Amassalik . After wintering, he explored the coast to the north, including an examination of the Kangerlussuaq Fjord , known until then only from Inuit reports. He mapped a large length of coastline while collecting many geological and ethnological finds. By July 1885, he reached Aggas Island (67° 22' North),

304-458: Was allegedly seen as well by Lauge Koch from the air in 1933. Koch later led the 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land , a sled expedition across the inland ice of Greenland, also known as the "1912-13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land and across North Greenland’s Inland Ice," with Alfred Wegener , Vigfús Sigurðsson, and Lars Larsen. Koch received, among other honors, the Vega medal of

323-532: Was appointed to the Greenland Commission, (1931: Commission for scientific studies in Greenland) of which he was chairman from 1930 until 1931. In 1937, he took over the publication of Meddelelser om Grønland . He was a member of the editorial board of "Grønland in tohundredåret for Hans Egede's Land". Amdrup was promoted to the rank of commander in 1916. In 1925, he was promoted to rear admiral in 1925, and

342-864: Was the Commander of the Niels Iuel . From 1927, he was Vice Admiral Sir Georg Amdrup. At the winter 1900-01 meeting of the Royal Danish Geographical Society held in the Copenhagen Concert Hall , Amdrup was honored with a Medal of Merit in gold . He also received other medals from several foreign geographical societies, including the Royal Geographical Society in 1902, and the Royal Geographical Society's Back grant. In 1913, Mikkelsen dedicated his book, Being

361-472: Was to explore the coast between Cape Brewster and Aggas Island . They arrived at Little Pendulum Island , before continuing to Cape Dalton (69°25 N) in mid July where they divided into two parties. While the expedition's second in command, Nikolaj Hartz , stayed with the Antarctic and examined the country up to Scoresbysund and fjords to the north, Amdrup endured great hardship and dangers further south in

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