Jens Arnold Diderich Jensen (24 July 1849, in

Flensburg Flensburg (; Danish, Low Saxon: ''Flensborg''; North Frisian: ''Flansborj''; South Jutlandic: ''Flensborre'') is an independent town (''kreisfreie Stadt'') in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the ...

– 24 November 1936, in Copenhagen) was a

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naval officer and Arctic explorer.

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Jensen assisted the geological exploration along the Greenland west coast. He is particularly renowned for his explorations of the inland ice sheet. He led an expedition that discovered the

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. ...

s now named

J. A. D. Jensen Nunataks J. A. D. Jensen Nunataks ( da, J. A. D. Jensen Nunatakker) are a nunatak group in Greenland. Administratively it falls under the Sermersooq Municipality. This geographic feature was named after Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer Jens Arn ...

''(J. A. D. Jensens Nunatakker)'' after him. The geologist of the expedition, A. Kornerup, collected no less than 27 species of Angiosperms on the

Cape J.A.D. Jensen Cape J.A.D. Jensen ( da, Kap J.A.D. Jensen) is a headland in the North Atlantic Ocean, east Greenland, Sermersooq municipality. This cape is named after J. A. D. Jensen (1849 - 1936), an officer of the Danish Navy and Arctic explorer. Geography ...

and the J.A.D. Jensen Fjord are also named after him. In 1911, he changed his name to Jens Arnold Diderich Jensen Bildsøe.

Works

* ''Indlandsisen'', 1888. * ''Grundrids af Læren om Ebbe og Flod'', 1899. * ''Lærebog i Navigation'', I-II, 1903–04, 2nd edition 1914–19. * ''Kortfattet Navigationslære'', 1908, 4th edition 1929. * ''Danske Søfartslove i Uddrag'' (1908, 3d edition 1927) * ''Nautisk Almanak'', 1891. * Contribution to ''

Meddelelser om Grønland ''Meddelelser om Grønland'' ("''Communications on Greenland''") is a Danish scientific periodical which publishes scientific results from all fields of research on Greenland. It was established by Frederik Johnstrup and published as a single seri ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jensen, J. A. D. 19th-century Danish naval officers 20th-century Danish naval officers Explorers of the Arctic Danish polar explorers 1849 births 1936 deaths People from Flensburg

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