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Ejnar Mikkelsen (23 December 1880 in Vester-Brønderslev – 1 May 1971 in Copenhagen), was a Danish polar explorer and author. He is most known for his expeditions to Greenland. ==Biography== He was born in Vester Brønderslev, Jutland. He served in the Georg Carl Amdrup expedition to Christian IX Land, East Greenland (1900), and in the Baldwin-Ziegler expedition to Franz Joseph Land (1900–02).〔 * 〕 With Ernest de Koven Leffingwell he organized the Anglo-American polar expedition which wintered off Flaxman Island, Alaska, in 1906-07. They lost their ship, but in a sledge journey over the ice they located the continental shelf of the Arctic Ocean, 65 miles (105 km) offshore, where in 2 miles (3 km) the sea increased from 50 meters (164 ft) to more than 690 meters (2264 ft) in depth.〔Mills, William James (2003) ("Mikkelsen, Ejnar (1880-1971)" ) ''Exploring polar frontiers: a historical encyclopedia, Volume 1'' pp 426 ff, ABC-CLIO ISBN 1-57607-422-6, ISBN 978-1-57607-422-0〕 Organizing an expedition to map out the northeast coast of Greenland, to recover the bodies of Mylius-Erichsen and Lieutenant Höeg-Hagen and their records, Mikkelsen wintered 1909-10 at Shannon Island, East Greenland. His wooden ship, the ''Alabama'', was trapped in the ice of Shannon and, while he was exploring, the rest of the party returned home on a whaler. Remaining with his engineer, Iversen, Mikkelsen succeeded by a series of hazardous sledge journeys in recovering the lost records and in disproving the existence of Peary Channel.〔 The two explorers returned to Shannon island to find the crew gone, but, they had salvaged timbers and planking and erected a small cottage. Mikkelsen and Iversen then spent two winters at the cottage before they were rescued, in the direst of extremities, by a Norwegian whaler in summer 1912.〔 The so-called ''Alabama cottage'' has survived, intact, and was photographed during a visit by Danish Navy inspection ship ''Ejnar Mikkelsen'' in September 2010.〔Danish Armed Forces, FORSVARET, Greenland Command, press release, 11 September 2010, (Ejnar Mikkelsen back at Shannon Island after 98 years ) Google translate, 26 Sept 2010.〕 In 1924, he led an expedition to settle what later came to be Scoresbysund.〔 In 1970 on his 90th birthday a national tribute was paid to him in Denmark, he died in Copenhagen a few months later on 1 May 1971.〔"Captain Einar Mikkelsen." Times (England ) 5 May 1971: 18. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 22 Mar. 2014.〕 In 2009 the Royal Danish Navy named the second Knud Rasmussen class patrol vessel the HDMS ''Ejnar Mikkelsen''.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ejnar Mikkelsen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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