Account of the Danish expedition led by Jens Munk to search for the Northwest Passage. Munk's account has been rendered into modern English by Walter Kenyon from an earlier translation.

Poul Houe, Sven Hakon Rossel. Carsten Niebuhr and Jens Munk are further cases in point . They both leave their homes and follow the route of Odysseus . While Niebuhr discovers happiness at last , Jens Munk tries very hard , but always ...

Human Landmarks in the Arctic Richard Clarke Davis. JENS MUNK ( 1579-1628 ) On the fourth of June , 1620 Jens Munk must have surveyed a dismal scene surrounding him in Munk's Harbour , a place now more familiar as Churchill . On that day ...

... Jens Munk set sail from Tøjhushavnen in Copenhagen with two ships, Enhiørningen and Lamprenen. The purpose of Munk's royally sanctioned expedition, funded by Christian iv, the King of Denmark, was to discover the Northwest Passage. On ...