Abandoned in the Arctic: Northeast Greenland National Park

In the early 1900s, explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen and a young mechanic named Iver Iversen traveled to northeast Greenland. Their mission? To recover the lost records of a doomed expedition that proved Greenland was a single landmass under Danish control. When their ship was crushed by ice and their crew departed, the mission turned into years of starvation and isolation in what has since become the world’s largest national park. For a complete list of our sources, visit npadpodcast.com/episodes For the latest NPAD updates, group travel opportunities, merch and more,

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Abandoned in the Arctic: Northeast Greenland National Park is an episode from National Park After Dark.

This episode is 70:38 long.

This episode was published on Mar 2, 2026.

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