Johansen, Fritz

Fritz Johansen served as a zoologist on the 1906-1908 Danish Expedition to Greenland led by L. Mylius. In 1913 he joined the Canadian Department of Naval Services’ Canadian Arctic Expedition, then in the 1920’s he performed marine surveys of Labrador and Hudson Bay for the Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries. He died in Denmark in 1957.
According to the Canadian Museum of Civilization, “A large bay near the Richardson Islands, on the south coast of Victoria Island, carries Johansen’s name to honor his Canadian Arctic Expedition work as a biologist... His published Canadian Arctic Expedition reports are on insect life in the western Arctic, Arctic vegetation and crustaceans. His manuscript on Arctic fishes was never published, but has been of great value in the production of a new work on the fishes of Arctic Canada by the Canadian Museum of Nature.” (www.herbarium.unc.edu, 2013-11-06)
The picture shows Fritz Johansen in front of CAE house, Bernard Harbour, Nunavut. July 11, 1916. GHW 51240. Source: Canadian Museum of Civilization