The Danish Ingolf-Expedition (1920) (20212163203)

Carl Frederik Wandel (15 August 1843 – 21 April 1930) was a Danish naval officer and

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. He was largely involved in hydrographic work. Wandel became an officer of the

Danish Navy The Royal Danish Navy ( da, Søværnet) is the sea-based branch of the Danish Defence force. The RDN is mainly responsible for maritime defence and maintaining the sovereignty of Danish territorial waters (incl. Faroe Islands and Greenland). Oth ...

in 1863, rising to the rank of captain in 1892, of Rear Admiral in 1899 and Vice Admiral in 1905. He retired from active service in 1911.

Career

In 1864 Wandel served in the schooner in the

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and in 1865-67 he took part in a French expedition to

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. In 1876-78 he was put in charge of the mail ship to

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its ...

and in 1880 he participated in a US oceanographic survey expedition. In 1881-86 he was Head of the Marine Ministry Secretariat, 1886-88 head of maritime surveys in Danish waters and in 1889-98 director of the Chart-archive. In 1890 Wandel was appointed chairman of the commission for the survey of Danish waters and in 1895 chairman of the commission for geological and geographical studies in Greenland. In the period of 1901-08 he became an official in the Defence Commission. In 1914-27 he was the president of the Royal Danish Geographical Society.Wandel, Carl Frederik i Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon
/ref> Wandel was regularly deployed as commander, including in 1884 and 1897 commander of the Danish ironclad Helgoland, in 1895 and 1896 as leader of the

Ingolf Expedition HDMS ''Ingolf'' was a Danish schooner-rigged steam gunboat build in iron and launched in 1876. ''Ingolf'' marks a transition between the traditional gunships with muzzle-loading cannons placed along the sides of the ship and modern breechloading ...

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and in 1898 as commander of the frigate ''HDMS Fyn'' to the Mediterranean.

Honours

The

Wandel Sea The Wandel Sea ( da, Wandelhavet; also known as McKinley Sea) is a body of water in the Arctic Ocean, stretching from northeast of Greenland to Svalbard. It is obstructed by ice most of the year. This sea is named after Danish polar explorer ...

between

and

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, Cape Wandel and the

Wandel Land Wandel Land is a nunatak ( kl, nunataq) in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is one of several nunataks in the Melville Bay region of Greenland, where the Greenland ice sheet ( kl, Sermersuaq) drains into the bay alongside i ...

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit language, 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 p ...

in Greenland, were named after him.

Works

*''Maritime Warfare in the Danish and Norwegian waters 1807-14'' (1915), *''Danmark og Barbareskerne 1746-1845'' (1919), *''Nogle Livserindringer'' (1923) *''The Danish Commerce attempt in the Orient in the eighteenth century''. (1927).

References

External links

The Danish Ingolf-Expedition - Internet Archive
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