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Dickson Fjord
Dickson Fjord ( da, Dicksons Fjord) is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area. This fjord is part of the King Oscar Fjord system.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 119 History This fjord was first surveyed in 1899 by Swedish Arctic explorer Alfred Gabriel Nathorst during the Swedish Greenland Expedition in search of survivors of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897. Nathorst named it after Swedish politician Robert Dickson (1843–1924), one of the financial backers of the venture.''Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland'', Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland In 1930 Norwegian ship ''Veslekari'' reached the head of Dickson Fjord and recorded a sounding of , but sudden shoaling prevented the ship from anchoring.''Sailing Directions for East Greenland and Iceland,'' p. 117 Geography Dickson Fjord is in the northernmost area of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arctic
The Arctic ( or ) is a polar regions of Earth, polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean, adjacent seas, and parts of Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Danish Realm (Greenland), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia (Murmansk Oblast, Murmansk, Siberia, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Nenets Okrug, Novaya Zemlya), Sweden and the United States (Alaska). Land within the Arctic region has seasonally varying snow and sea ice, ice cover, with predominantly treeless permafrost (permanently frozen underground ice) containing tundra. Arctic seas contain seasonal sea ice in many places. The Arctic region is a unique area among Earth's ecosystems. The cultures in the region and the Arctic indigenous peoples have adapted to its cold and extreme conditions. Life in the Arctic includes zooplankton and phytoplankton, fish and marine mammals, birds, land animals, plants and human societies. Arctic land is bordered by the subarctic. De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operational Navigation Chart B-9, 1st Edition
An operational definition specifies concrete, replicable procedures designed to represent a construct. In the words of American psychologist S.S. Stevens (1935), "An operation is the performance which we execute in order to make known a concept." For example, an operational definition of "fear" (the construct) often includes measurable physiologic responses that occur in response to a perceived threat. Thus, "fear" might be operationally defined as specified changes in heart rate, galvanic skin response, pupil dilation, and blood pressure. Overview An operational definition is designed to model or represent a concept or theoretical definition, also known as a construct. Scientists should describe the operations (procedures, actions, or processes) that define the concept with enough specificity such that other investigators can replicate their research. Operational definitions are also used to define system states in terms of a specific, publicly accessible process of preparation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Lugano
Mount Lugano ( da, Lugano Bjerg) is a mountain in eastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park.Google Earth History This peak was named ''Monte Lugano'', after the town of Lugano in Switzerland, by Swiss geologist Eugen Wegmann (1896 - 1982) at the time of Lauge Koch's 1931-34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Louise Boyd had previously used the temporary names "Scoop Mountain" and "C. Mountain" in her 1931 Greenland expedition. Mount Lugano was first climbed by Eugen Wegmann, together with fellow Swiss geologist Augusto Gansser (1910 – 2012), on 11 August 1934. According to an interview he gave in 1939 to the magazine ''Illustrazione Ticinese'', Wegmann allegedly was overcome by nostalgia for pleasant Lugano, standing hungry and thirsty in the harsh polar weather at the summit of the mountain. Hence the name. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gletscherland
Gletscherland, meaning "Glacier Land", is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History This peninsula was named during the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland owing to it being largely glaciated. The name "Canton Land" has also been used. Geography True to its name, Gletscherland is largely glaciated, with many ice caps and glaciers. It is located southwest of Suess Land, northwest of Lyell Land, and southeast of Goodenoughland. Google Earth The peninsula has a mountainous, Alpine terrain; Mount Lugano is Gletscherland's highest point. The Cecilia Nunatak rises to the southwest. It is bounded in the northwest by the Hisinger Glacier, in the north and northeast by the Dickson Fjord, in the southeast by the Rhedin Fjord, in the south by the Wahlenberg Glacier and to the west it is connected to the mainland. The Röhss Fjord and the valley at its head, almost divide the peninsula in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kjerulf Fjord
Kjerulf Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. The Kjerulf Fjord is part of the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord system.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 120 Administratively it lies in the area of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History There are Inuit ruins at a place named Paradisdal. Excavations were conducted by James Wordie at the time of the 1929 Cambridge Expedition to East Greenland. There are also scattered remains of the now extinct East Greenland reindeer in the form of antlers and bones. The fjord was first mapped by Julius Payer during the 1869–1870 Second German North Polar Expedition led by Carl Koldewey (1837–1908). It was named after Norwegian geologist Theodor Kjerulf (1825–88), founder of the Geological Survey of Norway in 1858. There were errors in Payer's map, which were later corrected by Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (1850–1921). Josef Hammar was the first to reach the head of the fjord by canoe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suess Land
Suess Land is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History This peninsula was named by A.G. Nathorst after Austrian geologist Eduard Suess (1831–1914) at the time of his 1899 venture searching for traces of the lost Andrée expedition. Nathorst had previously translated a book by Eduard Suess into Swedish. Geography Suess Land has a mountainous, Alpine terrain. It is located west of Ymer Island, south of Andree Land, north of Lyell Land and northeast of Gletscherland.Google Earth It is bounded in the west by Kjerulf Fjord, in the north by Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord, in the northeast by the Antarctic Sound, in the east by the King Oscar Fjord, in the south by the Kempe Fjord Kempe Fjord ( da, Kempes Fjord) is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area. This fjord is part of the King Oscar Fjord system.''Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dickson (1843–1924)
Robert Dickson may refer to: * Robert Dickson (writer) (1944–2007), Canadian poet and academic, winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry in 2002 * Robert Dickson (fur trader) (c. 1765–1823), fur trader and official in the Indian Department in Upper Canada * Robert Dickson (Upper Canada politician) (1796–1846), lawyer and political figure in Upper Canada * Robert Dickson (Nova Scotia politician) (1777–1835), farmer and political figure in Nova Scotia * Robert Dickson (architect) (1926–2014), Australian architect * Robert Dickson (sailor) (born 1998), Irish sailor * Robert Dickson (1843–1924), Swedish politician, governor in Jönköping and Stockholm, Governor of Stockholm * Rob Dickson (1963–2009), Australian rules footballer, winner of ''Australian Survivor'', and film director * Bruce Dickson (Robert Bruce Dickson, born 1931), Canadian ice hockey player. * Brian Dickson (Robert George Brian Dickson, 1916–1998), Chief Justice of Canada * Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kempe Fjord
Kempe Fjord ( da, Kempes Fjord) is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area. This fjord is part of the King Oscar Fjord system.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 119 History This fjord was named by a Swedish Arctic explorer Alfred Gabriel Nathorst after a Stockholm businessman Seth Michael Kempe (1857– 1946), during the Swedish Greenland Expedition in search of survivors of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897. Kempe was one of Nathorst's most generous supporters and also a good friend of expedition surveyor Per Dusén.''Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland'', Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland In 1899, while first exploring King Oscar Fjord, Nathorst wanted to reach the sea through Davy Sound, which had been put on the map by William Scoresby in 1822, but the sound was blocked by ice. While travelling back north he found an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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