Polar Podcasts

07: Niels Henriksen: Lifting the ‘iron curtain’ on geological mapping in Northeast Greenland

Julie Hollis
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In this episode, we hear more from Niels Henriksen, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about the late 1960s, when the survey embarked on an ambitious and very successful campaign of systematic geological mapping in remote east Greenland, a completely different undertaking from their work on the west coast.