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Peder Olsen Walløe
Peder Olsen Walløe (1716 – 27 April 1793) was a Dano-Norwegian Arctic explorer most noted for his historic exploration of the former Norse settlements on Greenland. Biography Peder Olsen Walloe was born on the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm. In 1739, he came to Greenland as one of five colonists called by Lutheran missionary Hans Egede. He learned to speak the Kalaallisut language and settled as a trader with permission to operate outside the Godthåb colony. During 1751–53, Walløe explored the southern coasts of Greenland on behalf of the Danish mission. The aim was to locate the lost Eastern Norse Settlement which was commonly believed to be located on the east coast of Greenland. In August 1751, Walloe left Godthaab in a native boat accompanied by two Danish sailors and two Eskimo rowers. The expedition used umiaks able to navigate in the shallow waters between the coast and the sea ice. The first year he reached what became Julianehåb District where he made certain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hvalsey Church
Hvalsey Church ( da, Hvalsø Kirke; non, Hvalseyjarfjarðarkirkja) was a Catholic church in the abandoned Greenlandic Norse settlement of Hvalsey (now modern-day Qaqortoq). The best preserved Norse ruins in Greenland, the church was also the location of the last written record of the Greenlandic Norse, a wedding in September 1408."Hvalsey Church" Blue Ice Explorer History According to the sagas, the land around Hvalsey was claimed by Thorkell Farserk, a relative of Erik the Red. Christianity arrived in Greenland around the year 1000 and churches began to be built in the country. It is thought that Hvalsey Church was built in the early 14th century, but archaeological finds hint that this was not the first church in this site. The church is mentioned in several late medieval documents as one of the 10-14 parish churches in the Eastern Settlement. The Church hosted the wedding of Thorstein Olafsson and Sigrid Björnsdóttir on either 14 or 16 September 1408. The wedding was mentio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Farewell, Greenland
Cape Farewell ( kl, Nunap Isua; da, Kap Farvel) is a headland on the southern shore of Egger Island, Nunap Isua Archipelago, Greenland. As the southernmost point of the country, it is one of the important landmarks of Greenland. Geography Located at , excluding small offshore islets, this cape is the southernmost extent of Greenland, projecting out into the North Atlantic Ocean and the Labrador Sea on the same latitude as St Petersburg, Oslo and the Shetland Islands. Egger and the associated minor islands are known as the Cape Farewell Archipelago. The area is part of the Kujalleq municipality. King Frederick VI Coast stretches from Cape Farewell to Pikiulleq Bay (former spelling 'Pikiutdleq') in the north along the eastern coast of Greenland. See also *List of countries by southernmost point This is a list of countries by southernmost point on land. Where borders are contested, the southernmost point under the control of a nation is listed, excluding points within Anta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scandinavian Explorers Of North America
A Scandinavian is a resident of Scandinavia or something associated with the region, including: Culture * Scandinavianism, political and cultural movement * Scandinavian design, a design movement of the 1950s * Scandinavian folklore * Scandinavian languages, a common alternative term for North Germanic languages * Scandinavian literature, literature in the language of the Nordic Countries * Scandinavian mythology People * Scandinavian Americans, in the United States * Scandinavians or North Germanic peoples, the most common name for modern North Germanic peoples * Scandinavians, any citizen of the countries of Scandinavia * Scandinavians, ethnic groups originating in Scandinavia, irrespective of ethnolinguistic affiliation Places * Scandinavian Mountains, a mountain range on the Scandinavian peninsula * Scandinavian Peninsula, a geographic region of northern Europe Ships * SS Scandinavian, a ship Other * Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), an aviation corporation * Scandinavian Defen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1793 Deaths
The French Republic introduced the French Revolutionary Calendar starting with the year I. Events January–June * January 7 – The Ebel riot occurs in Sweden. * January 9 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fly in a gas balloon in the United States. * January 13 – Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, a representative of Revolutionary France, is lynched by a mob in Rome. * January 21 – French Revolution: After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, ''Citizen Capet'', Louis XVI of France, is guillotined in Paris. * January 23 – Second Partition of Poland: The Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia partition the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. * February – In Manchester, Vermont, the wife of a captain falls ill, probably with tuberculosis. Some locals believe that the cause of her illness is that a demon vampire is sucking her blood. As a cure, Timothy Mead burns the heart of a deceased person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1716 Births
Events January–March * January 16 – The application of the Nueva Planta decrees to Catalonia make it subject to the laws of the Crown of Castile, and abolishes the Principality of Catalonia as a political entity, concluding the unification of Spain under Philip V. * January 27 – The Tugaloo massacre changes the course of the Yamasee War, allying the Cherokee nation with the British province of South Carolina against the Creek Indian nation. * January 28 – The town of Crieff, Scotland, is burned to the ground by Jacobites returning from the Battle of Sheriffmuir. * February 3 – The 1716 Algiers earthquake sequence began with an 7.0 mainshock that caused severe damage and killed 20,000 in Algeria. * February 10 – James Edward Stuart flees from Scotland to France with a handful of supporters, following the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715. * February 24 – Jacobite leaders James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater and W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Arctic Expeditions
This list of Arctic expeditions is a timeline of historic Arctic exploration and explorers of the Arctic. 15th century * 1472: Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst mark the first of the cartographic expeditions to Greenland * 1496: , venturing out of the White Sea, travels along the Murman Coast and the coast of northern Norway 16th century * 1553: English expedition led by Hugh Willoughby with Richard Chancellor as second in command searches for the Northeast Passage * 1557: English expedition led by Stephen Borough reaches the Kara Strait * 1576–1578: English expeditions led by Martin Frobisher reach Baffin Island * 1579: Danish-Norwegian expedition led by James Alday fails to reach Greenland due to ice * 1580: English expedition led by Arthur Pet and Charles Jackman reaches the Kara Sea * 1581: Danish-Norwegian expedition led by Magnus Heinason fails to reach Greenland due to ice * 1585–1587: English expeditions led by John Davis explore the Davis Strait–Baffin Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cartographic Expeditions To Greenland
This is a list of recognised pioneering expeditions to Greenland that contributed to the cartography of the territory. See also * Geography of Greenland * Arctic exploration * List of Arctic expeditions This list of Arctic expeditions is a timeline of historic Arctic exploration and explorers of the Arctic. 15th century * 1472: Didrik Pining and Hans Pothorst Hans Pothorst ( 1440 – 1490) was a privateer, likely from the German city Hil ... References Bibliography * {{Greenland topics History of Greenland Exploration of the Arctic Cartography History of geography Arctic expeditions Geography of Greenland Arctic-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Frederick VI Coast
King Frederick VI Coast ( da, Kong Frederik VI Kyst) is a major geographic division of Greenland. It comprises the coastal area of Southeastern Greenland in Sermersooq and Kujalleq municipalities fronting the Irminger Sea of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by King Christian IX Land on the north and the Greenland Ice Sheet to the west. Named after King Frederick VI of Denmark-Norway, the coast stretches for about south of the Arctic Circle. It is characterized by a succession of short fjords, steep mountains and small coastal islands. There is a narrow belt of ice-free land between the shore and the Inland ice cap, interrupted by active glaciers reaching the shore with the ice limit varying seasonally from year to year. Owing to the movement of pack ice carried by the East Greenland Current and frequent gale-force winds that sweep down from the Greenland ice cap, it is mostly very difficult to approach or navigate along the coast by ship. History This area was inhabite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Walløe
Cape Walløe ( da, Kap Walløe), also known as Kangeq and Kangerssiuasik, is a headland in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast Greenland, Kujalleq municipality. History Cape Walløe was named in 1829 by Lieutenant Wilhelm August Graah (1793–1863) after Dano-Norwegian Arctic explorer Peder Olsen Walløe (1716 – 1793) who was the first European known with certainty to have explored the southern part of the southeastern coast of Greenland using local umiak boats. This headland was the farthest point that Walløe reached up the then uncharted coast before he had to turn back because he found it impossible to proceed further north owing to the ice. Geography Cape Walløe is located northeast of the mouth of Nattoralik Fjord.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 100 The entrance of Kangerluaraq Kangerluaraq, old spelling ''Kangerdluaraq'', is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland. Geography Kangerluaraq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia after Uppsala University, and ranks as one of the top universities in the Nordic countries, Europe and the world. Its establishment sanctioned by Pope Sixtus IV, the University of Copenhagen was founded by Christian I of Denmark as a Catholic teaching institution with a predominantly Theology, theological focus. In 1537, it was re-established by King Christian III as part of the Lutheran Reformation. Up until the 18th century, the university was primarily concerned with educating clergymen. Through various reforms in the 18th and 19th century, the University of Copenhagen was transformed into a modern, Secularism, secular university, with science and the humanities replacing theology as the main subjects studied and taught. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan area has 2,057,142 people. Copenhagen is on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the Øresund strait. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road. Originally a Viking fishing village established in the 10th century in the vicinity of what is now Gammel Strand, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. Beginning in the 17th century, it consolidated its position as a regional centre of power with its institutions, defences, and armed forces. During the Renaissance the city served as the de facto capital of the Kalmar Union, being the seat of monarchy, governing the majority of the present day Nordic region in a personal union with Sweden and Norway ruled by the Danis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
