Bertelsen Glacier ( Danish : Bertelsen Gletscher ) is a glacier in northern Greenland . Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park . Between 2006 and 2010 there was an automatic weather station near the glacier.
13-469: The glacier was mapped with accuracy by Lauge Koch during an aerial survey in May 1938. It had previously not been seen by Robert Peary during his 1902 exploration of the area that put the adjacent Moore Glacier in the map. The glacier was named in honour of Aage Bertelsen , who had taken part in the 1906–1908 Danmark Expedition . The Bertelsen Glacier is one of the main glaciers in eastern Peary Land . It
26-709: A bitter conflict arose between Koch and eleven of the most prominent Danish geologists of the day, including O. B. Bøggild , director of The Mineralogical Museum and professor at the Geological Institute of Copenhagen University , and Victor Madsen [ sv ] , head of the Geological Survey of Denmark . Controversy started with a review of the Lauge Koch book Geologie von Grönland (1935) written by ‘the eleven’ and accusing Koch of poor and improper scientific practice. Relating to
39-472: A channel —the so-called " Peary Channel ". Koch's observations of the interior of Independence Fjord led to considerable cartographic changes compared with the Peter Freuchen map of 1912. In 1922 he mapped Hiawatha Glacier , and noted that the glacier tongue extended into Lake Alida (near Foulk Fjord ). In 1938, Lauge Koch found in the mountains west of Jameson Land , near Scoresby Sound ,
52-527: A permanent infrastructure in the field caused a change in the whole culture and organization of Danish Arctic exploration. His last expedition was the 1956-58 Expedition to East Greenland in which he used helicopters. But the Danish government cut funding in mid-expedition and Koch's career as expedition leader was terminated. The mineral kochite which is found in Mt Hvide Ryg , Werner Bjerge , and
65-879: A tilted peneplain of Jurassic sandstone , highest in the east. In the northern end there are also rocks of Triassic age. Two formations are predominant in Jameson Land: the Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation and the Jurassic Kap Stewart Formation. Triassic fossils of the Fleming Fjord Formation in Jameson Land include: the dipnoi Ceratodus , prosauropod and theropod dinosaurs bones and tracks, sauropod tracks, phytosaurs , temnospondyls, and sharks. This Greenland location article
78-565: Is a valley glacier, a branch of the larger, northwest-flowing Moore Glacier , joining it from the northeast. It is located in the area of the easternmost subranges of the Roosevelt Range , between the H. H. Benedict Range to the southwest and the Daly Range to the northeast. This Greenland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lauge Koch Lauge Koch (5 July 1892 – 5 June 1964)
91-623: The University of Copenhagen , where he began his studies in 1911, in 1920 he received a master's degree , and in 1929 a doctor's degree , having defended a dissertation on the topic " Stratigraphy of Greenland". He was the renowned leader of 24 Danish government expeditions to Greenland , and the central character in the Lauge Koch Controversy , an international and intra-national conflict. Beginning in December 1935
104-674: The former Greenland county of Tunu was named for Koch in honor of his explorations in the same areas. The coelacanth Laugia from the Early Triassic of Greenland is named in his honor. Koch was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the American Geographical Society in 1924, its Daly Medal in 1930, as well as the Vega medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography . In 1927 he
117-673: The northwest by the Stauning Alps , to the north by Scoresby Land , to the northeast by the Fleming Fjord and the Nathorst Fjord of the Greenland Sea , and to the east by Carlsberg Fjord , the smaller Liverpool Land peninsula branching off, and Hurry Inlet . Its northeastern end is Cape Biot . The Mestersvig military base is located in the northern part of the peninsula. Jameson Land mainly consists of
130-559: The skeleton of a huge extinct mammal similar to the head of a gigantic animal with huge teeth found by Professor Selim Hassan in 1935 near the pyramid of Chephren . The skeleton found by Koch was displayed at the museum in Copenhagen . Amongst his other contributions to the sciences, in the mid-1930s Koch established a network of field stations and traveling huts in Central East Greenland. This establishment of
143-618: The years 1921–23 in which Lauge Koch conducted the Bicentenary Jubilee Expedition to North Greenland in the year of the bicentennial jubilee of Hans Egede 's landing in Greenland, Koch made a sledge journey along the north coast of Greenland, round Peary Land and back across the Inland Ice. On this journey Koch discovered a depression which in his opinion was the one that Robert Peary in 1892 had mistaken for
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#1732790624233156-520: Was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer . Lauge Koch was born in 1892 to Karl and Elisabeth Koch. His development as a scientist was greatly influenced by his father's second cousin Johan Peter Koch - a polar explorer, a member of several Greenland expeditions, including Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen 's and Alfred Wegener 's (in the latter's expedition (1912-1913) to cross Greenland, he led a sledging party). He received his higher education at
169-890: Was awarded the Patron's Medal of the British Royal Geographical Society for his work in Greenland and the Hans Egede Medal of the Royal Danish Geographical Society . In 1949 he was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences . Jameson Land Jameson Land is a peninsula in eastern Greenland . Jameson Land is bounded to the southwest by Scoresby Sound (the world's largest fjord ), to
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