Three-year expedition to East Greenland

Explored area, King Christian X Land.
Norwegian-occupied Eirik Raudes Land

The Three-year Expedition (Danish: Treårsekspeditionen) 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. [1]

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.[2]

  1. ^ Ole Ventegodt. "Treårsekspeditionen". Den Store Danske, Gyldendal. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  2. ^ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 8 July 2016.