 Having begun his career using bicycles to survey the terrain Munthe continued to advocate using bicycle well after survey by car had become commonplace.A Gotlänning ("Gotlander") by birth Munthe's dialect is reported to have been Gotländska and he was particularly fond of working with issues regarding the island.He was the editor of SGU's Gotland maps and lectured about its Quaternary geology at the Visby local history society in 1911.