368 Arctic and Antarctic Exploration [part i 
with Deichmann and Jensen as zoologists, Lieut. Koch 
of the Danish Army as surveyor and draughtsman, and 
Otto Nordenskiold, nephew of the great Arctic explorer, 
as geologist. The instructions for the expedition were 
signed by Admiral Wandel and Captain Holm, 
On the 14th June, 1900, the Antarctic sailed from 
Copenhagen with Amdrup and his scientific staff \ Amdrup 
was to complete the survey from Scoresby Sound to 
Angmagsalik in a boat, while Hartz continued the 
researches connected with the region round Scoresby 
Sound. On arriving off Cape Dalton in 69 0 25' 
Lieut. Amdrup left the ship, and set out on his boat 
voyage on July 21st accompanied by young Mikkelsen 
and two seamen. The voyage occupied 44 days, and 
on September 2nd Angmagsalik was reached. Meanwhile 
Hartz, in the ship, explored the coast from Cape Dalton 
to Scoresby Sound, thence proceeding to Angmagsalik 
to pick up Amdrup and his party. Large and valuable 
collections were made, excellent series of observations were 
taken, and the work was brought to a most successful 
conclusion. The Amdrup expedition marks a period in 
Arctic history. It completed the discovery and mapping 
of the whole of the east coast of Greenland from Cape 
Farewell to Cape Bismarck. 
A far more dangerous and difficult enterprise now 
faced the gallant Danish explorers, namely the discovery 
of the unknown region from Cape Bismarck to the furthest 
north, a distance, of 400 miles 2 . 
The American explorer Peary, using Eskimos and 
their dogs, had been working to reach the north coast 
of Greenland from 1898 to 1902. His first winter was 
at Cape Dobbin on the west coast of Ellesmere Island, 
1 A Swedish expedition under Professor Nathorst in the Antarctic 
had reached Scoresby Sound in July 1899, and afterwards explored and 
mapped the previously unknown and complicated system of fjords forming 
the inner branches of Davy Sound, proving that they were connected 
with Franz Josef Fjord. In September T899 Nathorst left the coast, 
and his ship the Antarctic was used in the iollowing year for the Carlsberg- 
fondet Expedition. 
8 His Royal Highness Philippe Due D 'Orleans made a voyage to that 
part of the coast on board the Belgica with M. Geiiache as his master in 
1905. He stood northwards along the land ice, and succeeded in effecting 
a landing to the north of Cape Bismarck in 77 0 36'N. On July 31st he was 
in 78 0 i6\ the furthest north ever attained by a ship on tins coast, and he 
could see as far as 78 0 30'. Tn August he again landed in 77 0 36', the place 
receiving the name of Cape Philippe. 
