Carsten Richardson was an early 17th-centuryHolsteinian-Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. He was the commander ofKing Christian IV's final expedition to Greenland.
Carsten Richardson was in command of one of five ships in the 1606 expedition toGreenland led byGodske Lindenov and sent byChristian IV of Denmark to locate the lostEastern Norse Settlement and to assert Danish sovereignty. In the following year, Richardson was made leader of a failed expedition with the same purpose, equipped with two ships – the flagshipTrost ("Consolation") andGrønlandske Bark ("Greenland Bark") – and 44 men. Dense sea ice prevented them from landing on the Greenland coast, which was in sight.