This is a list of recognised pioneering expeditions to Greenland that contributed to the cartography of the territory.

Expedition Year(s) Area Leader Third Northwest Passage Voyage 1578 South Greenland Martin Frobisher Danish Allday Expedition 1579 South Greenland James Allday Danish Heinason Expedition 1581 South Greenland Magnus Heinason John Davis' Expeditions to the Northwest Passage Southwest Greenland John Davis Christian IV's Expeditions 1605–1607 Southeast Greenland Hall Expedition 1612 Southwest Greenland James Hall and William Baffin English Button Expedition 1612–1613 Southwest Greenland Josias Hubert Baffin Expedition 1616 West Greenland William Baffin Walløe Expedition 1751–1753 Southeast Greenland Peder Olsen Walløe Ross Expedition 1818 Northwest Greenland John Ross Scoresby's Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery in the Baffin of Liverpool 1822 East Greenland William Scoresby Commissioners for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea Expedition 1823 East Greenland Douglas Charles Clavering and Edward Sabine Graah Expedition 1828–1830 Southeast Greenland W. A. Graah La Lilloise Expedition 1833 Southeast Greenland Jules de Blosseville Inglefield Expedition 1852 Northwest Greenland Edward Augustus Inglefield First German North Polar Expedition 1868 Northeast Greenland Carl Koldewey Second German North Polar Expedition (Germania and Hansa) 1869–1870 Northeast Greenland Carl Koldewey British Arctic Expedition 1875–1876 North Greenland George Nares J. A. D. Jensen Expedition 1878 Inland ice in West Greenland J. A. D. Jensen Lady Franklin Bay Expedition 1881-1884 Nares Strait area in far northern Greenland Adolphus Greely Umiak Expedition 1883–1885 Southeast Greenland Gustav Holm and Thomas Vilhelm Garde Second Dickson expedition 1883 West Greenland and East Greenland at Ammasalik Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld Upernavik Mapping Expedition 1886–1887 Northwest Greenland Carl Ryder Nansen Expedition 1888 Across the inland ice Fridtjof Nansen Ryder's East Greenland Expedition 1891–1892 Scoresby Sund system Carl Ryder Peary's North Greenland Expeditions 1891–1892 North Greenland Robert Peary Swedish NW Greenland Expedition 1892 Northwest Greenland Johan Alfred Björling Peary's North Greenland Expeditions 1893–1895 North Greenland Robert Peary Ingolf Expedition 1895–1896 East Greenland C.F. Wandel Peary's Arctic Club Expedition 1898–1902 North Greenland Robert Peary Sverdrup Expedition 1898 Northwest Greenland Otto Sverdrup Carlsbergfund Expedition to East Greenland 1898–1900 Coast between Ammassalik Island and Scoresby Sound G. C. Amdrup Swedish Greenland Expedition to search for Andrée 1899 Northeast Greenland Alfred Gabriel Nathorst Literary Expedition 1902–1904 Northwest Greenland Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen and Knud Rasmussen Duke of Orléans Arctic Expedition 1905 Northeast Greenland Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans Denmark expedition 1906–1908 Northeast Greenland Ludvig Mylius-ErichsenG. Amdrup: Report on the Danmark Expedition to the North-East Coast of Greenland 1906–1908. In: Meddelelser om Grønland 41, 1913, pp. 1–270 Alabama Expedition 1909–1912 Northeast Greenland Ejnar Mikkelsen First Thule Expedition 1912 North Greenland Knud Rasmussen and Peter Freuchen Second Swiss Expedition 1912 Across the inland ice Alfred de Quervain Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land 1912–1913 Across the inland ice J.P. Koch Second Thule Expedition 1916–1918 North Greenland Knud Rasmussen Third Thule Expedition 1919 North Greenland Knud Rasmussen Fourth Thule Expedition 1919–1920 East Greenland Knud Rasmussen Bicentenary Jubilee Expedition 1921–1923 North Greenland Lauge Koch 1929–1930 Expedition to East Greenland 1929–1930 Northeast Greenland Lauge Koch German Greenland Expedition 1930–1931 Across the inland ice Alfred WegenerThe German Greenland Expedition 1930–1931 British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930–1931 East Greenland Gino Watkins Sixth Thule Expedition 1931 Northeast Greenland Knud Rasmussen 1932–1933 Greenland expedition 1932–1933 East Greenland Gino Watkins until his death, then John Rymill Gefion Expedition 1932 Northeast Greenland Johannes Gerhardt Jennov and Alf Trolle Scoresby Sund Committee's 2nd East Greenland Expedition 1932 East Greenland Ejnar Mikkelsen Three-year Expedition to East Greenland 1931–1934 East Greenland Lauge KochThe Three-Year Expedition 1931-34 British East Greenland Expedition 1935–1936 East Greenland Lawrence Wager Cartographic Air Expedition 1938 North Greenland Lauge Koch Mørkefjord Expedition 1938–1939 Northeast Greenland Eigil Knuth Norwegian-French Expedition 1938–1939 Northeast Greenland Gaston Micard Danish Peary Land Expedition.Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 50 (1950) Dansk Pearyland Ekspedition. Sidste års meteorologi og topografisk overblik 1947–1950 North Greenland Eigil Knuth British North Greenland Expedition 1952–1954 North and Northeast Greenland James Simpson 1956–1958 Expedition to East Greenland 1958–1959 East Greenland Lauge Koch

See also Geography of Greenland Arctic exploration List of Arctic expeditions References

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