Abandoned in the Arctic: Northeast Greenland National Park

In the early 1900s, explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen and a young mechanic named Iver Iversen traveled to northeast Greenland. Their mission? To recover the lost records of a doomed expedition that proved Greenland was a single landmass under Danish control. When their ship was crushed by ice and their crew departed, the mission turned into years of starvation and isolation in what has since become the world’s largest national park.

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Sources

Book: Two Against the Ice by Ejnar Mikkelsen

Movie/Documentary: Against the Ice

Websites/Articles:

Arctic Institute: Denmark Expedition Records

National Museum of Denmark on The Lost Denmark Expedition

BBC History Extra

Northeast Greenland National Park

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