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13-543: The outer part of the fjord was first surveyed by Carl Koldewey during the 1869–70 Second German North Polar Expedition . Koldewey named it Lindeman Bai after Moritz Karl Adolf Lindeman (1823 – 1908), secretary of the Association for German Polar Exploration (Verein für die Deutsche Nordpolarfahrt) in Bremen . Later, during the 1929–1930 Expedition to East Greenland led by Lauge Koch , more thorough surveys were made and

26-553: A famous archaeologist and architecture historian. Places named after Carl Koldewey: Adolf Pansch Adolf Pansch (2 March 1841, in Eutin – 14 August 1887) was a German anatomist and naturalist . Since 1860 he studied medicine and natural sciences in Berlin and Heidelberg , and from 1862 to 1864 he studied medicine in Berlin and Halle . After graduation, he served as a prosector in

39-416: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Carl Koldewey Carl Christian Koldewey (26 October 1837 – 17 May 1908) was a German Arctic explorer. He led both German North Polar Expeditions . Koldewey was the son of merchant Johann Christian Koldewey and his wife Wilhelmine Meyer. Koldewey enrolled as a sailor in 1853 immediately after Grammar school at Clausthal . At age 22, he attended

52-508: The Hansa travelled physician and zoologist Reinhold Wilhelm Buchholz and geologist Gustav Carl Laube . The expedition left Bremerhaven on 15 June 1869. Already on 20 July both ships were separated. The Hansa was crushed by the ice on 19 October 1869 and the crew saved itself on an ice floe. Meanwhile, the Germania reached Sabine Island on 5 August 1869. From there the task of mapping out of

65-452: The Naval school in Bremen , where he was among Arthur Breusing 's best pupils. Later he went to sea again but returned to Naval school in 1861. After becoming a captain , Koldewey studied mathematics, physics, and astronomy at the universities of Hanover and Göttingen between 1866 and 1867. Through his teacher Breusing and encouraged by August Petermann Koldewey was given the leadership of

78-718: The anatomical museum at the University of Kiel , where in 1866 he began work as a lecturer to the faculty of medicine. In 1869/70 he took part in the Second German North Polar Expedition , about which he published a few works involving the natural history of the Arctic . In 1874 he became an associate professor at the University of Kiel. He died at the age of 46 while on a sailboat excursion in Kieler Förde . His name

91-470: The coast between 73° and 77° northern latitude was undertaken by taking measurements from the ship or using sleighs and whalers. This work was a continuation of Edward Sabine 's 1823 expedition. Trying to reach the North Pole , the Germania reached its northernmost latitude 75°30'N on August 14 northeast of Shannon Island , where they had to return on account of lack of leads in the ice. Payer carried out

104-530: The expedition was the discovery and investigation of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord . After taking part in the expeditions, Koldewey worked as a writer and took part in scientific publications. From 1871 he worked at the German naval observatory in Hamburg , whose Nautical Instruments department he took over in 1875. On 31 July 1905 he retired as an admiralty's director. One of his nephews, Robert Koldewey (1855–1925), became

117-427: The first Arctic expedition as captain of ship Grönland . He had the choice of either advancing northwards as far as possible along Greenland 's east coast or to reach so-called Gillis-Land by travelling around Spitsbergen . But adverse conditions and strong ice floes prevented him from reaching both destinations. Finally he reached his northmost latitude of 81°5' near Spitsbergen and returned. From 1869 to 1870 he

130-407: The fjord was found to become narrow to the west and extend further inland, thus the water body was renamed "Lindeman Fjord". Lindeman Fjord opens to the east, southwest of Kuhn Island and south of the mouth area of Fligely Fjord . It extends southwest of Kuhn Island , west of Cape Schumacher at the southern end of the island. To the south lies A. P. Olsen Land and Thomas Thomsen Land lies to

143-454: The mapping of Shannon island while the astronomers took latitude measurements on it. A wintering camp was established at Sabine island from 27 August 1869 to 22 July 1870. Advancing inland using sleighs, the islands and coast of Greenland were mapped. Further investigations were carried out that provide an insight into the magnitude of Greenland's mountains and glaciers. However, the actual highlight and most considerable geographical achievement of

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156-500: The north. The fjord is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) wide at the entrance and stretches to the west for about 25 kilometres (16 mi), curving slightly southwestwards and narrowing to less than 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) before the head. A massive mountain named Hohe Kugel rises north of the mouth of the fjord. Svejstrup Dal , a long valley at the head of Lindemann Fjord, stretches northwestwards between A. P. Olsen Land and Thomas Thomsen Land This Greenland location article

169-663: Was captain of the Germania and the leader of another expedition to Greenland and to the Arctic Sea which intended to penetrate into the Arctic central region. It was equipped with the propeller steamboat Germania and the sailing ship Hansa under captain Paul Friedrich Hegemann . Six scientists joined the expedition: astronomers and physicists Karl Nikolai Jensen Börgen and Ralph Copeland , zoologist, botanist and physician Adolf Pansch , and surveyor Julius von Payer . On

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