EXPLORING GREENLAND
The largest expedition Denmark",ha» ever sent to Eastern Greenland', .hag left Copenhagen under the leadership of tho young Arctic explorer, Dr. Lauga Koch. The expedition includes 109 persons, seventy-two of whom are Bciontists. . " ' .-■,.• ■•.;:,; The two ■ ships, Gustav Holm, and Godthaab,' which the Danish Government, has placed at the expedition's,disposal, will' stop at Akureyri; Iceland, 'before, proceeding to Scoresby- Sound, in- Eastern. Greenland.. - Here-it is. plan'liccl to make maps of unknown territory and from aeroplanes photographs will be taken of hitherto unnamed fjords and islands along the coast .., . ."' 'Fifteen,motor boats will bo. attached ■to t,h!e two'ships. Several of thie scienItista are well-known geologist^ jists, and.zoologists, ~who will examine :the geological formations, th.o . plant and fish life of East Greenland. The Carlsberg Foundation in Copenhagen •gave 800,000 ; crowns to cover, the expenditure. " .■•'•■■
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1933, Page 4
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142EXPLORING GREENLAND Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1933, Page 4
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