Carsten Richardson was an early 17th-century

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naval officer and Arctic explorer. He was the commander of King Christian IV's final expedition to Greenland. Carsten Richardson was in command of one of five ships in the 1606 expedition to

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Godske Lindenov Godske Christoffersen Lindenov or Lindenow (d. 1612 Copenhagen) was a Denmark, Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. He was a commander on one of King Christian IV's expeditions to Greenland. Early life He was of the noble family Lindenov of L ...

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to locate the lost

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and to assert Danish sovereignty. In the following year, Richardson was made leader of a failed expedition with the same purpose, equipped with two ships the flagship ' ("Consolation") and ' ("Greenland Bark") and 44 men. Dense sea ice prevented them from landing on the Greenland coast, which was in sight.

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*Mills, William James (2003) Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia – 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA USA
pp. 548–549: Carsten Richardson

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