Jens Munk: The Story of a Sailor Who Embraced His Fate

• Main Author: Wiehl, Inga W.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 1985
• Subjects: Jens Munk; explorer; Danish National Museum; Arctic seas; European History; European Languages and Societies; Regional Sociology; Arctic; Hudson Bay; Hudson; Northwest Passage; Munk; Northwest passage
• Online Access: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol3/iss2/6; https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/context/thebridge/article/1937/viewcontent/02_Jens_Munk.pdf

"Jens Munk was one of the intrepid sixteenth-century explorers who navigated the Arctic seas with inadequate ships, faulty charts and primitive instruments. He was also one of the few who survived the arduous search for the Northwest Passage, who reached Hudson Bay in 1619, wintered there, buri...