Peary Land

partly along the 45 degrees west meridian on the ice cap.

The large interior of the park is part of the Greenland Ice Sheet, but there are also large ice-free areas along the coast and on Perry Land, P-E-A-R-Y, in the north.

The park includes King Frederick VIII Land and King Christian X Land geographical areas.

I encourage you to look at Wikipedia and other sources for a map of the Greenland Northeast Greenland National Park.

Accompanied by two Greenlanders, the explorers intended to map some of the more obscure regions of the gigantic island and to establish once and for all whether the Peary Channel was real or not.

First named and described in 1892 by American explorer Robert Peary, the Peary Channel supposedly separated an island which he creatively named Peary Land from the rest of Greenland.

But there was doubt over Peary’s observations and more accurate maps were necessary for better and safer Arctic exploration.

In fact, it was the search for the Peary Channel that caused the tragedy of the Denmark Expedition that led to the death of Mylius-Erichsen and his team.

Therefore, Peter Freuchen might have felt a bit of justice when he proved Peary wrong.

Following a five-month voyage, he and Rasmussen showed conclusively that the Peary Channel did not exist and that Peary Land was, in fact, just a peninsula at the northern tip of Greenland.

The First Thule Expedition was hailed as one of the most daring and most successful polar journeys ever undertaken on dogsleds.

It garnered enough attention that Freuchen and Rasmussen returned to Denmark for a while to receive various commendations and give multiple lectures.