Christian IV's expeditions to Greenland

The expeditions were commissioned in order to locate the lost Eastern Norse Settlement and reassert sovereignty over Greenland.

The expeditions were mostly unsuccessful, partly due to its leaders lacking experience with the difficult arctic ice and weather conditions and partly due to its leaders eventually being given instructions to search for the Eastern Settlement on the east coast of Greenland, which was almost inaccessible at the time due to southward-drifting ice.

The expeditions were respectively commanded by John Cunningham (or "Hans Køning"; 1605), Godske Lindenov (1606), and Carsten Richardson (1607).

[1][2] The Danes had a falling-out with the English over the route being taken, far to the south of that recorded in the Bergen and Trondheim archives.

[3] In the same vein, King Christian commissioned an expedition to North America in 1619.