The Washington times., 1909-01-02
MAP OF GREENLAND
At LAST PUBLISHED
Exact Shape of Largest Is
land in World Finally
Known.

The completed map Of Greenland. the
largest island i'm the world has at last
been published i'm Petermann's Mitteil-
unEen. It was left till this late dav to
learn the exact shape of this land mass.
DR. Mylus-Erichsen explored the UNI
known northeast coast last wear and
we now have the map of his surveys.
The map was made It the cost of the
lives Of the explorer and his two com
rales, who persisted after their work
was done. while on their way back to
the snip The completed map Of Green
land VIII be A monument TO their uem-
DRY.
The trend Of the northeast coast is
very different from what geographers
had supposed. t has been marked on
all previous maps as probably extend
ing from about IS degrees north Iau-
tude in general northwest direction
10 the Independence Bay of Pearv. In
fact, it extends for about 300 miles I'm
northeasterly direction tin its most east
ern point nearly touches u degrees
west longitude from Greenwich.
About forty years ago, DR.. A. Peter
mann spread the view that Greenland
probably extended across the mole and
down the other side of the earth to the
ueIghborhood Of Boring strait. With
this idea in view. he wrote the fnstruc-
uons for the second German North Pol
ar expedition, under Captain Koldewev.
VINO was sent out to complete If pos
sloie' the mapping of the east coast
Passes Cape Bismarck.
He succeeded in reaching by sledge
journey only u degrees north p UtfIe
beyond cape Bismarck. We now know
that more than 1000 miles OF tortuous
coast line stretches between his high
est north and the northern shores of
the island
Then. in 1905 the Duke Of Orleans on
the steam yacht BeIg-.aa. pushed over
100 miles TO the north of cane Ris-
marck- but FOG prevented him from
making satisfactory survey OF the
coast line. Meanwhile. DR.. Mullins
ETichsen formed the plan of making a
complete survey OF the unknown coast
OF Greenland from Cape bismarck
north till he Joined his sury,v with
lhat OF beaTy. and thus COMPLETED the
map of the island
lie started or the steamer Denmark
from Copenhagen on June q 100; TirLr
e4 up three Green. anders and a LOT 0f
Eskimo dogs that mad been sent to the
Farce Islands to meet MIN, touched ar
Iceland, pushed for fourteen davs
through the ice of the Greenland sea
and reached Koldewcy island on An
gust Is
ON the next day he 7 al an easy Jour
ney in the ice-free coastal waters TO
Cape Bismarck, and iu the inlet behind
IL hc found q suitable place for the
winter quarters OF his ship The little
harDuT was named Denmark Haven I'm
the late summer he sledged supplies
uorthWard 60 make provision deUotE for
the long journey ~ the following spring.
and he also surveyed the coasts both
north and south Of his winter camp as
long as daylight lasted
on March - last year the great sledge
Journey was begun. Mvlius- EriChsen,
Lieutenant Hagen and the GreeuIauder
BToulund were 10 survey every mile Of
the coast until their explorations Joined
those OF PeaTy at Independence bay.
Lieutenant Koch, the artist BeTteIsen
and the Greenlander Gahriel-eH were to
push north OF Peary enamel to com
pIete the exploration OF the eastern
edge of Peary Land, which Peary had
explored as far south as WyCkOm island.