Jagoran tawagar Danish, Johan Peter Koch, ya karya kafa lokacin da ya fada cikin dutsen kankara kuma ya kwashe watanni yana murmurewa a cikin gadon rashin lafiya. Wegener da Koch sune na farko da suka yi hunturu a kan kankara na cikin gida a arewa maso gabashin Greenland. A cikin gidansu sun yi rawar jiki zuwa zurfin mita 25 tare da mai ba da labari. A lokacin rani na 1913 ƙungiyar ta haye kankara a cikin kankara, mahalarta tawagar guda hudu sun rufe nesa sau biyu kamar yadda Fridtjof Nansen ya yi a kudancin Greenland a 1888.
Johan Peter Koch