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Today’s Date: Birth of an Explorer
Daniel Deleuran
January 15th, 2016
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An influential man working towards influential discoveries
An explorer’s box of tools (photo: Dariusz Sankowski)
On this day in 1870, the famous Danish captain and explorer Johan Peter Koch was born.
He was heavily involved in Admiral Georg Carl Amdrup’s month-long expedition to east Greenland in 1900 and a later survey of Iceland.
The expeditions were extremely successful, obtaining significant botanical, geological and zoological specimens.
Reportedly, the crew also brought back a live musk ox and ten lemmings for unexplained reasons.
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