200px, Schooner '' Fylla'' in Copenhagen harbour Carl Hartvig Ryder (12 September 1858 – 3 May 1923) was a

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naval officer and

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explorer.

Biography

Carl Ryder was born in

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. He was the son of Frederik Valentiner Ryder (1821-1909) and his wife Henriette Sophie Cathrine Husmann (1836-1896). He entered a military career in the

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becoming a Second Lieutenant in 1879 and Captain 1897. He led an expedition to the

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Distrikt in 1886-1887 and, most famously, the 1891-1892 expedition to East Greenland by the vessel ''

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''. The way north from

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was effectively blocked by ice. Instead, Ryder made the first comprehensive mapping of the entire

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. He was a member of several other expeditions: *The meteorological expedition 1882–83 to

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led by Adam Paulsen *The naturalist expedition to West Greenland with

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and

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in 1884 on the schooner '' Fylla'' *

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's 1885 expedition

Personal life

He married Ida Caroline Helene Clara Wolff (1864–1933) in 1888.Ostermann, H. (1982). Ryder, C. H.. In: ''Dansk biografisk Leksikon'' v. 12: pp 485-86. The

Ryder Glacier Ryder Glacier is a gently sloping glacier, 13 nautical miles (24 km) long and wide, flowing west from the Dyer Plateau of Palmer Land into George VI Sound to the south of Gurney Point. First surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expe ...

in NW Greenland is named in his honour.

Literature

* Spencer Apollonio, ''Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland,'' 2008

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ryder, Carl Explorers of the Arctic Danish explorers 1858 births 1923 deaths

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