Carsten Richardson

Who is Carsten Richardson?

Carsten Richardson was an early 17th-century Holsteinian-Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. He is most noted for his role in King Christian IV's Expeditions to Greenland.

Carsten Richardson was in command of one of five ships in the 1606 expedition to Greenland led by Godske Lindenov and sent by Christian IV of Denmark to locate the lost Eastern Norse Settlement and to assert Danish sovereignty. In the following year, Richardson was made leader of a failed expedition with the same purpose, equipped with two ships – the flagship Trost and Grønlandske Bark – and 44 men. Dense sea ice prevented them from landing on the Greenland coast, which was in sight.