Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen
Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (15 January 1872 – 25 November 1907) was a Danish author, ethnologist, and explorer, from Ringkøbing. He was most notably an explorer of Greenland.
Literary expedition
With Count
Evighedsfjord, two ice-free mountain ranges. The party later proceeded to Cape York and lived for 10 months in native fashion with the Eskimo. The return journey of the expedition to Upernavik across the ice of Melville Bay
was the first sledge crossing on record.
Denmark expedition
As commander of the
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:
... the Peary Channel does not exist.[1]
Mylius-Erichsen established the continuity of Greenland from
.Death
Misled by existing maps, Mylius-Erichsen with
Nioghalvfjerd Fjord. 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.
Works
- Tatere (1898), a drama
- Vestjyder (1900), tales
- Den Jydske Hede før og nu (1903)
- Isblink (1904), poems from Greenland
- Grønland (1906)
- Report on the nonexistence of Peary Channel in Meddelelser om Grønland, (50 volumes, Copenhagen, 1876–1912), volume xli (1913), edited by Ejnar Mikkelsen.
Honours
- Mylius-Erichsen Land in northern Greenland was named after him.
- Denmark Expedition Memorial in Copenhagen.
- A silver commemorative medal issued in 1933 –25 years after the expedition— by Alf Trolle (1879–1949), captain of expedition ship Danmark and leader of the Denmark expedition after Mylius-Erichsen's death.
Literature
- Achton Friis, Danmark Expeditionen til Grönlands Nordostkyst (1909), reprinted in 1987 and 2005.
- Greely, True Tales of Arctic Heroism (New York, 1912)
- Rasmussen, People of the Polar North (Philadelphia, 1908)
- G. C. Amdrup, Report on the Denmark Expedition to the North-East Coast of Greenland (Copenhagen, 1913).
- Ole Ventegodt, "Den sidste Brik", Copenhagen, 1997
- Peter Freuchen, "Min grønlandske ungdom", 1936 (Memories)
See also
References
- ^ Apollonio, Spencer (2008). Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland. p. 128.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.)
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External links
- Works by Ludwig Mylius-Erichsen at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen at Internet Archive
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