Alf Trolle

Born in 1879, Alf Trolle was a Danish naval officer and polar explorer who took part in the Danmark Expedition to northeast Greenland from 1906 to 1908. He later wrote about the journey in Van de Deensche expeditie naar Noord-Groenland, a narrative drawn from direct experience in one of the harshest environments on earth.

Trolle’s writing is closely tied to exploration rather than fiction. It follows the practical work of travel, navigation, and survival in the Arctic, while also capturing the strain, camaraderie, and tragedy that shaped the expedition.

He died in 1949. Today he is remembered as both a participant in a major Greenland expedition and a writer whose work preserves a vivid eyewitness record of that era of polar exploration.