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another was passed at Etah, whence, starting on the 4th 
March, 1900, he made his way to the Discovery's winter 
quarters in Lady Franklin Bay. Setting out from that 
position on April 15th, he travelled along the north 
coast of Greenland, passing the discoveries of Beaumont 
and Lockwood. From Lockwood Island in 83 0 34' N., 
which he reached on May 8th, he went onwards to a 
latitude of 83 0 39' N., which appears to be the most 
northern point of Greenland. On the 19th he passed 
a promontory which he named Cape Bridgman, and his 
furthest point was called Cape Clarence Wycloff in 
Lat. 82 0 57' 7" N. and Long. 23 0 9' W., where a cairn was 
built. He had his man Henson and an Eskimo with him, 
and a team of dogs. During the last two days he was 
enveloped in a dense fog. He began his return on 
May 22nd and reached the Discovery's winter quarters 
on June 10th. The cairn in 82 0 57' N. would, therefore, 
be the point the Danes would have to reach in order 
to complete the discovery of the east coast. 
The great work was undertaken by a young Dane 
named Mylius Erichsen, who was born at Viborg in 
Jutland in 1872. He had visited the Danish settlements 
on the west coast of Greenland, had crossed Melville 
Bay, and wintered at Cape York ; and he was now filled 
with the patriotic desire to place the crown on the 
edifice of Danish discovery. The task had become a 
sacred one for him, and with such an impulse he 
thought the goal must be reached if human power could 
attain it. 
The Due d'Orleans had shown how far north a 
ship might go, and the advice of experienced Arctic 
explorers was that Erichsen should winter on board 
ship, in a position to the north of Cape Bismarck, if 
possible. The necessary funds were raised, with help 
from the Government and the Carlsberg Fund, and a 
Norwegian sealer of 450 tons was bought and named 
the Danmark. She was built at Peterhead in 1885, was 
well fortified against the ice, and had been fitted with a 
screw propeller in 1892. A spacious laboratory was 
built before the main hatchway ; and besides four 
others, she took two motor boats. Most of the sledges, 
which were fitted with odometers > were made on board 
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