Talk:Jens Munk

Jens Munk and Spitsbergen

The first Danish whaling expedition was not sent to Spitsbergen until 1617, so it is impossible that he could have led expeditions there in 1615 and 1616. In 1615 he was part of a naval expedition to North Norway that was sent to disrupt foreign whaling. He did play a significant part in the recruiting of Basque whalemen for the 1617 expedition, but I don't know of him actually participating in it. And as far as I know he did not participate in the 1618 expedition either. Jonas Poole (talk) 22:11, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

This article needs a major rewrite

by a more fluent English speaker. Not to trod on the original contributors--I was very happy to have this information available here!

However, it is quite hard to read. If there are no objections by more experienced editors, I will undertake the project in a few weeks.

I did fix a couple of the more jarring errors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spelric (talk • contribs) 22:02, 4 July 2011 (UTC)