K. J. V. Steenstrup

[2] Steenstrup took a degree in pharmacy in 1863 and worked as assistant at the University of Copenhagen Geological Museum from 1866 to 1889.

He made remarkable collections of Cretaceous and Paleogene plant fossils in central West Greenland, which were later treated by swiss botanist Oswald Heer (1809–1883).

Nordenskiöld on Disko, and claimed by him to be meteorites, were in fact native iron extrusions in basalt.

From 1896 he was a member of the Commission for Scientific Investigations in Greenland and from 1902 fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Steenstrups Søndre Bræ) in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland, are named after him.