Carsten Richardson

Carsten Richardson was an early 17th-century Holsteinian-Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. He is most noted for his role in King Christian IV's Expeditions to Greenland.

Carsten Richardson was in command of one of five ships in the 1606 expedition to Greenland led by Godske Lindenov and sent by Christian IV of Denmark to locate the lost Eastern Norse Settlement and to assert Danish sovereignty. In the following year, Richardson was made leader of a failed expedition with the same purpose, equipped with two ships  the flagship  ("Consolation") and  ("Greenland Bark")  and 44 men. Dense sea ice prevented them from landing on the Greenland coast, which was in sight.

Notes 
Mills, William James (2003) Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia – 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA USA. pp. 548-549: Carsten Richardson

See also 
Cartographic expeditions to Greenland
List of Arctic expeditions

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