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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Johansen, Fritz
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Other form(s) of name
Frits Johansen
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Description area
Dates of existence
1882–1957
History
Frits (Fritz) Johansen was a prominent Danish-born zoologist, botanist, and marine biologist who dedicated much of his career to cataloguing the wildlife and environments of the Arctic regions. He is most well-known for working as a zoologist and naturalist on the Danish Expedition to Greenland from 1906-1908 and as an oceanologist on the Canadian Arctic Expedition (CAE) of 1913. He served with the southern party of scientists on the CAE between 1913 and 1916 while employed by the Department of Naval Services. In the 1920s, he was employed by the Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries to undertake marine surveys off Labrador and Hudson Bay. He published a Description of the Country and Vegetation at Port Churchill, Manitoba, in 1933.
Johansen would later move back to Denmark, where he died in 1957.