Elling Carlsen

He is credited with the discovery of Kong Karls Land[1] and was one of the crew of the 1872 Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition.

[3] In 1859, Carlsen discovered the island group that would later be named Kong Karls Land in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.

In 1868 and 1869, Carlsen sailed to Novaya Zemlya and into the Kara Sea, pioneering Norwegian hunting in the region.

[4] During a voyage to the Arctic Ocean in 1871, Carlsen discovered the lodge of Willem Barentsz on the north-eastern shore of the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya.

[2] Carlsen was ice master and harpooneer on the 1872–1874 Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition led by Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht, which discovered the archipelago of Franz-Josef Land during two years stuck in the ice in the Barents Sea.