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Petersen was born in Copenhagen.
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Johan Petersen
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At the age of about 20 he moved to Godthåb (now Nuuk) in Greenland where he made a living as a carpenter and sailor. In 1841 he moved to Upernavik, at the time the most northern Danish colony in Greenland. He worked on William Penny"s Expedition (1850-1851), Elisha Kane"s Second Grinnell Expedition (1853–1855) into Kane Basin, Francis Leopold McClintock Expedition (1857) and Isaac Israel Hayes North Pole Expedition (1860-1861).
He wrote two books about these expeditions.
On Kane"s expedition he worked together with the young Inuit Hans Hendrik, for whom Hans Island was named. After these expeditions, Petersen moved back to Denmark and died in Copenhagen, at the age of 66.
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