Count Eigil Knuth (8 August 1903 – 12 March 1996) was a Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor and writer. He is referred to as the Nestor ("elder statesman") of Danish polar explorers.[1] His archaeological investigations were made in Peary Land and adjacent areas of High Arctic Greenland.[2][3] Knuth was made a Knight of the Dannebrog.[4]
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^Erwin, John C. (June 1, 2004). "The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe: Eigil Knuth's archaeological investigations in Peary Land and adjacent areas of High Arctic Greenland.(Reviews: Book Review)". Arctic. 57 (2). Arctic Institute of North America of the University of Calgary: 214–215. doi:10.14430/arctic539. ISSN 0004-0843. OCLC 107784151.
^Grønnow, Bjarne; Jens Fog Jensen; Christyann M Darwent (2003). The northernmost ruins of the globe: Eigil Knuth's archaeological investigations in Peary Land and adjacent areas of High Arctic Greenland. Copenhagen: Danish Polar Center. ISBN 87-90369-65-3.
^Apollonio, Spencer (September 2008). Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland. University of Calgary Press. pp. 283. ISBN 978-1-55238-240-0. Medal eigil Knuth.
Count EigilKnuth (8 August 1903 – 12 March 1996) was a Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor and writer. He is referred to as the Nestor ("elder statesman")...
disappeared.: 737 Danish explorer EigilKnuth first recognised the existence of both Independence I and II. EigilKnuth’s intensive archaeological investigations...
Jensen Ellen Jørgensen (historian) Christian Jungersen Søren Kierkegaard EigilKnuth Birgithe Kosovic Tom Kristensen Lars Kroijer Cornelia von Levetzow Svend...
to the south, Dorset I persisted to at least AD 800. Danish explorer EigilKnuth first recognised the existence of Independence I and II. Bjarne Grønnow;...
discovered in September 1948 by the Danish explorer and archaeologist EigilKnuth during the second summer of the Danish Pearyland Expedition. Occupied...
Harald Moltke was built in 1972 near the cape under the auspices of EigilKnuth. There is also a small airfield near the facility. The Kap Harald Moltke...
National Park. The name of the fjord was given by Danish Arctic explorer EigilKnuth during the Danish Peary Land Expedition of 1947–1950. It was named after...
Moltke (erected in 1972). Both stations were built on the initiative of EigilKnuth and have been the basis for many scientific expeditions. Cape Harald...
expedition of 1938. It was explored from the ground by Danish Arctic explorer EigilKnuth together with Greenlander Jens Geisler in 1950 in the course of the Danish...
expedition was an exploratory expedition to northeast Greenland led by EigilKnuth 1946: Operation Nanook was a US cartographic mission to Thule and to...
Willerslev) and the Arctic region (Therkel Mathiassen, Erik Holtved, EigilKnuth). Danes have made significant contributions to the field of computer...
Bjarne Grønnow, Jens Fog Jensen: The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe. EigilKnuth’s Archaeological Investigations in Peary Land and Adjacent Areas of High...
Greenland. The fjord is mentioned in a letter from geologist Peter Dawes to EigilKnuth regarding a possible archaeological discovery. Freja Fjord is an offshoot...
and the mountains of the interior to the west. It extends between Cape EigilKnuth (Kap København) and Cape Henry Parish, with Cape Eiler Rasmussen as the...
Per Stig Møller gold Hans Enoksen gold Prince Takamado of Japan gold EigilKnuth gold Friis Arne Petersen gold Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ silver Mary Simon...
Klampenborg), a Danish merchant, investor, landowner and philanthropist Count EigilKnuth (1903 in Klampenborg – 1966) a Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor...
Bjarne Grønnow, Jens Fog Jensen: The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe. EigilKnuth’s Archaeological Investigations in Peary Land and Adjacent Areas of High...
Greenland with EigilKnuth (1903–1996) on an archaeological dig to excavate Viking Age sites on West Greenland's coast. Roussel, Knuth and Nørlund returned...
previously named by Robert Peary as Mount Wistar (Wistars Fjeld). In 1950 EigilKnuth, the leader of the Danish Peary Land Expedition, asserted that the mountain...
Mrs Mary G Henry 1950 Thor Heyerdahl 1952 William H Murray 1953 Count EigilKnuth 1954 Dr Alain Bombard MD 1955 Thomas Dempster Mackinnon 1955 George Christopher...
223 UWM - Arctic region: Peary Arctic Club, 1898-1902, Wyckoff Island EigilKnuth, The northernmost ruins of the globe. p. 210 GoogleEarth Prostar Sailing...
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