Mørkefjord expedition

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The Mørkefjord expedition took place in 1938–1939. It was a continuation of the Denmark Expedition and was led by Eigil Knuth, with Ebbe Munck and Alf Trolle. The trip was planned to last from 1938 to 1939, but World War II began and affected it.

A previous Northeast Greenland expedition had been led by Johan Peter Koch in 1913, a voyage in which Alfred Wegener had taken part.

Knuth and Munck arrived in Greenland on 19 June 1938. The team also included botanist Paul Gelting, Alf Trolle, and five other men. They used a Tiger Moth airplane. They built a scientific station north of the mouth of Mørkefjord, west of Hvalrosodden, named Mørkefjord Station, and used it as their base. They also used a hunting hut on Godfred Hansen Island built by the Nanok East Greenland Fishing Company.

Mørkefjord Station stayed staffed for two more years, 1938–1941, because the Danish Meteorological Institute asked for continued weather reports and because Knuth could not return due to the war. During its time, the expedition mapped and named many places in East Greenland. Today Mørkefjord Station is a ruin.