#jørgen brønlund

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Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (Jan. 15, 1872 - 1907) was a Danish Polar explorer and journalist. He was the charismatic leader of the so-called Denmark Expedition in 1906, which aimed to explore Eastern Greenland north of the 79th parallel.

Mylius-Erichsen perished during the expedition, when his sleigh party was caught by a sudden melt due to an early onset of summer. They tried to hole up and restart their trek when snow returned, but for reasons still unclear chose a different route from the one where depots had been prepared and laid out for them.

They likely died from a mixture of hunger, exposure and extreme cold, but the bodies of Mylius-Erichsen and one other member, Høeg Hagen, were never recovered. The third member, Brønlund, made it a bit further and his corpse and his diary were recovered in 1908.

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Jacob Jessen Untitled (Jørgen Brønlund journal), 2012. Blank replica of the original journal of Jørgen Brønlund, 11.5 x 16 cm. Courtesy of the artist

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Against the Ice (2022) 🎬❄️ film on Netflix is a survival drama directed by Peter Flinth which was premiered on February 15th during the Berlin International Film Festival. Co-produced by Iceland 🇮🇸 and Denmark 🇩🇰 it marks the first Netflix original production for both countries (in collaboration with RVK Studios and III Kippers), for a film based on real events.

The plot, in fact, is taken from “Two Against the Ice”, a book written by Ejnar Mikkelsen, a Danish polar explorer famous above all for his expeditions to Greenland.

In 1891, explorer Robert E. Peary American explorer and officer in the United States Navy outlined the eastern coast of Greenland and mapped a channel separating what he believed to be an island he called Peary Land from the mainland, allowing America to claim the island. This led determined Danish sailors on a fatal voyage to dispute that claim in 1907 — and Ejnar Mikkelsen on a quest to find them.

The Expedition To Recover Lost Maps In Greenland

The ill-fated Danmark expedition of 1907 saw Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Niels Peter Høeg-Hagen, and Jørgen Brønlund set out to prove that Greenland was a single unified island that belonged exclusively to Denmark.— But in doing so, they relied on Robert E. Peary’s maps of northeast Greenland, which included the hypothetical “Peary Channel” dividing the region in two. Misled by the incomplete maps, even as they sought to disprove them, the men became lost in the Arctic and were soon trapped in the ice. —While Brønlund’s body was found in 1908 with his maps and diary, Mylius-Erichsen and Høeg-Hagen’s never were. As a Dane and fellow explorer, Ejnar Mikkelsen couldn’t decline when British newspaper magnate Lord Northcliffe offered to finance a 1909 expedition to locate them.

The only way to disprove Peary's outline of the East Greenland coast and establish that the entire territory was part of the Kingdom of Denmark would be for the Danish government to fund expeditions to map the region.

In 1909, Danish polar explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen set out on a mission to recover the lost maps and journals of a doomed Arctic expedition to the northeast coast of Greenland. But it would take him three years for him to make it back home. He embarked on his expedition to Greenland to recover records proving that the territory is one piece of land, not two. Confirming that Greenland is a single piece of land would disprove American explorer Robert Peary's arguably claim that a channel, nicknamed the Peary Channel, separated part of Northeastern Greenland from the rest of the land mass, thus putting that area within American coastal waters.

One expedition in particular is at the center of the book (and, consequently, of the film), the one that Ejnar Mikkelsen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) carried out together with the mechanical engineer Iver Iversen (Joe Cole) on the north-east coast of Greenland to carry out the mapping of the territory and finally be able to deny the existence of the Peary through which the United States unjustifiably claimed ownership rights over that territory, trying not to nullify (but rather recover) the work and diaries of Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen who died and missing along with Lieutenant Hoeg-Hagen during the previous mission.

But in August 1909, Mikkelsen’s ship would get trapped in Arctic ice some 200 miles from where he believed his predecessors had died. According to his autobiography Two Against the Ice, Mikkelsen began the journey with six men but would be abandoned by all but one novice crewmate — and endured two winters in the Arctic.

Ejnar Mikkelsen’s ship Alabama in the summer of 1909.

The imperfect narrative may not make it a smoothly flowing film, but if you have a feeling with a certain type of real story based on tenacity, motivation and a spirit of survival then Against the Ice deserves at least a vision, if only to honor. to the vicissitudes and the enterprise of Mikkelsen and Iversen, rewarding them with respect and consideration. And keep in mind that there is always some truth in every dream .

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, believed in the Against the Ice project to the point of writing the screenplay (together with Joe Derrick ) and acting as a producer 🎞️ ❄️ At his side, the English Joe Cole and Charles Dance, involved with Coster-Waldau with whom he had worked on the Game of Thrones series.

—Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (left) as Ejnar Mikkelsen in Two Against the Ice.

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Mysterious black spot in polar explorer's diary offers gruesome clue to his fate

As a polar explorer lay frostbitten and starving in a frozen Greenland cave, he smeared a black spot onto the bottom of his last journal entry. More than a century later, that dark smudge has revealed grim new details of the dying man's final hours.

His name was Jørgen Brønlund; he was a Greenland-born Inuit and was part of a three-man team on the Denmark Expedition to Greenland's Northeast Coast, conducted from 1906 to 1908 and led by Danish ethnologist Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen. Brønlund died in November 1907 and was the last of the team to perish — and the only one whose body was ever recovered.

He recorded his final thoughts in a diary, and the last page included a heavy black smudge. Researchers recently conducted extensive analysis of the spot, finding that it contained burnt rubber, oils and feces. These traces hint at Brønlund's desperate and unsuccessful attempts to light a life-saving petroleum burner before he succumbed to cold and hunger, scientists wrote in a new study. Read more.

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This is the shit right here. If you can’t do this with your journal, why bother?

The paralyzing fear of writing something in a blank journal is magnified tenfold when it’s one of those leatherbound ones with cotton paper pages. It feels unworthy to put anything in it that isn’t the diary of your expedition thousands of miles from civilization, with sketches of the mysterious artifacts you found along the way.

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Chemical Analysis of a Black Spot in a Diary Sheds New Light on Legendary Polar Explorer’s Final Hours

Chemical Analysis of a Black Spot in a Diary Sheds New Light on Legendary Polar Explorer’s Final Hours

Sledgeteam 1 from The Denmark Expedition 1906-08. From left expedition commander Mylius-Erichsen, Niels Peter Høeg Hagen and Jørgen Brønlund. All three died on the expedition. Credit: wikipedia The Denmark Expedition set out to explore unknown Inuit land in 1906. Three members died. Chemical analysis of a black spot in a diary sheds new light on the destiny and tragic death of legendary Inuit…

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Study sheds new light on polar explorer’s final hours, 100+ years later

Study sheds new light on polar explorer’s final hours, 100+ years later

Enlarge / Danish explorer Jørgen Brønlund’s petroleum burner was found in 1973. Brønlund and two compatriots died in 1907 during an expedition to Greenland. Jørn Ladegaard Over 100 years ago, a Danish explorer named Jørgen Brønlund perished during an expedition to northeast Greenland, along with two members of his expedition. He left behind a diary detailing his last moments, with a black spot…

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Mysterious black spot in polar explorer’s diary offers gruesome clue to his fate Jørgen Brønlund was the last to die during the ill-fated mission in Greenland.