List of Arctic Expeditions - 1600s

1600s

• 1605–07 Danish expeditions led by John Cunningham, Godske Lindenov and Carsten Richardson (all piloted by James Hall), search for the lost Norse colonies on Greenland
• 1606 John Knight dies commanding an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage
• 1607 Henry Hudson explores Spitsbergen
• 1610 Jonas Poole thoroughly explores Spitsbergen's west coast, reporting that he saw a "great store of whales"; this report leads to the establishment of the English whaling trade.
• 1610 Russian K. Kurochkin explores mouth of the Yenesei River and adjoining coast
• 1612 James Hall and William Baffin explores Southwest Greenland
• 1612–1613 British Button Expedition
• 1613 Several whaling expeditions, consisting of a total of at least thirty ships, from England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands crowd Spitsbergen's west coast.
• 1614 Dutch and French expeditions discover Jan Mayen
• 1615 Robert Fotherby, in the pinnace Richard, is the first English expedition to reach Jan Mayen
• 1616 English expedition piloted by William Baffin explores Davis Strait-Baffin Bay region
• 1619–20 Danish expedition led by Jens Munk in Enhiörningen (Unicorn) and Lamprenen (Lamprey) to discover the Northwest Passage penetrated Davis Strait as far north as 69°, found Frobisher Bay, spent a winter in Hudson Bay.
• 1633-34 I. Rebrov explores the mouth of the Lena River
• 1633-35 I. Perfilyev explores Lena and Yana Rivers and intervening coast
• 1638 I. Rebrov explores coast between the Lena and Indigirka Rivers
• 1641 D.M. Zyryan and M.V. Stadukhin explore mouth of the Indigirka River and adjoining coast
• 1646 I. Ignatyev explores explores the mouth of the Kolyma River and adjoining coast
• 1648 Ya. Semyonov explores mouth of Kotuy River and adjoining coast
• 1648 Semyon Dezhnyov and Fedot Alekseyev explore from the Kolyma River through the Bering Strait
• 1649 M.V. Stadukhin explores coast from Kolyma River to Bering Strait
• 1686-1687 Bezvestnaya Expedition explores the coast of Taymyr Peninsula