Who, in 1988, led the 1st European expedition to cross Greenlandfrom east to west?
Southern Cross Expedition geography, he was unaware that the site of the base at Cape Adare would rule out any serious exploration of the Antarctic interior. For his expedition's ship, Borchgrevink purchased in 1897 a steam whaler, "Pollux", that had been built in 1886 in Arendal on the south east coast of Norway to the design of Colin Archer, the renowned Norwegian shipbuilder. Archer had designed and built Nansen's ship "Fram", which in 1896 had returned unscathed from its long drift in the northern polar ocean during Nansen's "Farthest North" expedition, 1893–96. "Pollux", which Borchgrevink immediately renamed "Southern Cross", was barque-rigged, 520 gross
Three-year Expedition to East Greenland Three-year Expedition to East Greenland The Three-year Expedition () was an exploratory expedition to East Greenland that lasted from 1931 to 1934 financed by the Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish state. The expedition included aerial surveys. Many geographic features in East Greenland were mapped and named during the expedition. Eskimonaes station was used as a wintering base by the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. The expedition was led by Lauge Koch. The other participants were Danish and Swedish geographers, geologists, archaeologists, zoologists and botanists: Paul Gelting, Gunnar Seidenfaden, Thorvald Sørensen, Steen Hasselbach, Helge G. Backlund, Gunnar Thorson, Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh, Helge