History of exploration in northeast Greenland
Solution caves in Greenland were first discovered in 1960 at Lat: +80° during Operation Groundhog – a programme to investigate emergency landing sites for aircraft, run by the United States Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories Ice-Free Land Program and US Geological Survey. Subsequently, the fi...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:6702799 2024-09-15T18:08:16+00:00 History of exploration in northeast Greenland Moseley, Gina Elaine 2020-08-01 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6702799 eng eng Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6702798 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6702799 oai:zenodo.org:6702799 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Cave and Karst Science, 47(2), 55-59, (2020-08-01) Greenland exploration expedition history speleology info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2020 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.670279910.5281/zenodo.6702798 2024-07-26T13:30:32Z Solution caves in Greenland were first discovered in 1960 at Lat: +80° during Operation Groundhog – a programme to investigate emergency landing sites for aircraft, run by the United States Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories Ice-Free Land Program and US Geological Survey. Subsequently, the first dedicated caving expedition to northeast Greenland took the form of a four-man land-based team in 1983. The next dedicated caving expeditions to the area were those of the Greenland Caves Project in 2015 and 2019, though there were attempts to locate a new cave region at Lat: +70° in 2018. In this report, the caving expeditions are put into context of the history of exploration in northeast Greenland, from the beginning – with the pre-Inuit people – to the present day. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland inuit Zenodo |
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Solution caves in Greenland were first discovered in 1960 at Lat: +80° during Operation Groundhog – a programme to investigate emergency landing sites for aircraft, run by the United States Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories Ice-Free Land Program and US Geological Survey. Subsequently, the first dedicated caving expedition to northeast Greenland took the form of a four-man land-based team in 1983. The next dedicated caving expeditions to the area were those of the Greenland Caves Project in 2015 and 2019, though there were attempts to locate a new cave region at Lat: +70° in 2018. In this report, the caving expeditions are put into context of the history of exploration in northeast Greenland, from the beginning – with the pre-Inuit people – to the present day. |
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History of exploration in northeast Greenland |
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