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Hochstetter Bay
Hochstetter Bay ( da, Hochstetterbugten) is a broad bay in northeastern Greenland. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park area. The name is said to have been in use from 1929 by Danish hunters, and first appeared on the maps of the 1932 Gefion Expedition. Geography This bay is located between Hochstetter Foreland and Shannon Island to the north, Kuhn Island to the west, and Wollaston Foreland and the Pendulum Islands to the south. To the east, the bay opens to the Greenland Sea. Ardencaple Fjord and Grandjean Fjord Grandjean Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History This fjord was mapped in 1932 during the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland led by Lauge ... have their mouths in the northwestern area of the bay, and Lindeman Fjord and Albrecht Bay in the southwestern. References Bays of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub ... [...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] |
Greenland Sea
The Greenland Sea is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south. The Greenland Sea is often defined as part of the Arctic Ocean, sometimes as part of the Atlantic Ocean. However, definitions of the Arctic Ocean and its seas tend to be imprecise or arbitrary. In general usage the term "Arctic Ocean" would exclude the Greenland Sea. In oceanographic studies the Greenland Sea is considered part of the Nordic Seas, along with the Norwegian Sea. The Nordic Seas are the main connection between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans and, as such, could be of great significance in a possible shutdown of thermohaline circulation. In oceanography the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas are often referred to collectively as the "Arctic Mediterranean Sea", a marginal sea of the Atlantic. The sea has Arctic climate with regular northern winds and temperatures rarely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is the world's largest island. It is one of three constituent countries that form the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark and the Faroe Islands; the citizens of these countries are all citizens of Denmark and the European Union. Greenland's capital is Nuuk. Though a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and Denmark, the colonial powers) for more than a millennium, beginning in 986.The Fate of Greenland's Vikings , by Dale Mackenzie Brown, ''Archaeological Institute of America'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northeast Greenland National Park
Northeast Greenland National Park ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq, da, Grønlands Nationalpark) is the world's largest national park and the 10th List of largest protected areas in the world, largest protected area (the only larger protected areas all consist mostly of sea). Established in 1974 and expanded to its present size in 1988, it protects of the interior and northeastern coast of Greenland and is bigger than all but List of countries and outlying territories by total area, 29 of the world's 195 countries. It was the first List of national parks of Denmark, national park to be created in the Kingdom of Denmark and remains Greenland's only national park. It is the northernmost national park in the world. It is the second largest by area of any second level subdivision of any country in the world trailing only the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. Geography The park shares borders, largely laid out as Great Circle, straight lines, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gefion Expedition
Gefion is an alternative spelling for Gefjon of Norse mythology. It may also refer to: * Gefion Fountain, a fountain in Copenhagen, Denmark * Gefion family, a grouping of asteroids in the intermediate main belt ** 1272 Gefion 1272 Gefion, provisional designation , is a stony asteroid and parent body of the Gefion family from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 10 October 1931, by astronomer Karl Reinmuth ..., a main-belt asteroid * SMS Gefion, a light cruiser of the Kaiserliche Marine {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hochstetter Foreland
Queen Margrethe II Land ( da, Dronning Margrethe II Land) is a peninsula in the northern limit of King Christian X Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park, NE Greenland National Park area. History The peninsula was named after Queen Margrethe II of Denmark on 16 April 1990 on the occasion of her 50th birthday. In 1932 a Norwegian hunting station was built at the southern end of Hochstetter Foreland, on the western shore of Peters Bay, by the mouth of Ardencaple Fjord. It was named Jonsbu ''(Jónsbú)'' after Norwegian trapper John Schjelderup Giæver (1901–1970). The station was destroyed in World War II. Geography Queen Margrethe II Land is bounded in the west by the Ejnar Mikkelsen Glacier, in the north by the Bessel Fjord, in the east by the Greenland Sea, in the southeast by the Shannon Sound —with Shannon Island across it to the east, and in the south by the Ardencaple Fjord and the Bredefjord. Adolf S. Jensen Lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannon Island
Shannon Island ( da, Shannon Ø) is a large island in Northeast Greenland National Park in eastern Greenland, to the east of Hochstetter Foreland, with an area of . It was named by Douglas Charles Clavering on his 1823 expedition for the Royal Navy frigate HMS ''Shannon'', a 38 gun frigate on which he served as midshipman under Sir Philip Broke. The island is also home to many different types of animals such as polar bears, walruses, ravens, and oxen. History Most landmarks in the area were named by the Second German Polar Expedition under Carl Koldewey in 1869–70. Between October 1943 and June 1944, the German meteorological expedition ''Bassgeiger'' operated under difficult conditions at Kap Sussi on Shannon. Their ship ''Coburg'' was wrecked off Shannon. The station was discovered by hunters, but the crew was evacuated by air to Norway. The island is the site of several hunter's cabins and is reputed to have especially favorable ice conditions. Geography Shannon Island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuhn Island
Kuhn Island ( da, Kuhn Ø) is a coastal island in Hochstetter Bay, eastern Greenland. There are coal deposits on the island. The island was discovered by the Second German North Polar Expedition (1869-1870) and is named after Franz Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld, the Austro-Hungarian minister of war, who was a patron of the expedition's cartographer, Julius von Payer. Geography This island lies to the north of Wollaston Foreland, separated from Thomas Thomsen Land in the mainland by a narrow sound, the Fligely Fjord. The Lindeman Fjord has its mouth to the southwest and the Hochstetter Bay of the Greenland Sea lies to the east. The mouths of Ardencaple Fjord and Grandjean Fjord open to the north. The islands that are located further off the shore in the bay are Shannon Island to the NE and the Pendulum Islands Little Pendulum Island ( da, Lille Pedulum Ø) is an island in Eastern Greenland, in the Northeast Greenland National Park. History The island was named by Douglas Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wollaston Foreland
Wollaston Foreland ( da, Wollaston Forland) is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area. History This peninsula was named by William Scoresby in 1822 as a testimony of respect to William Hyde Wollaston. It was also surveyed and explored by the Second German North Polar Expedition 1869–70 led by Carl Koldewey. The Danish Sirius Dog Sled Patrol has its headquarters at Daneborg on the southeastern shore. The Zackenberg research station is situated further West, near Young Sound. Geography Wollaston Foreland is bounded in the north by the Lindeman Fjord and Albrecht Bay of Hochstetter Bay, in the east by the Greenland Sea, in the south by the Young Sound and Gael Hamke Bay''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 101 and in the west by A. P. Olsen Land. To the south and southwest across Young Sound lies large Clavering Island, close off northeast Sabine Island, and cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pendulum Islands
Little Pendulum Island ( da, Lille Pedulum Ø) is an island in Eastern Greenland, in the Northeast Greenland National Park. History The island was named by Douglas Charles Clavering’s 1823 expedition, during which the Irish scientist Edward Sabine swung the pendulum on the largest of the islands (Sabine Island). Geography Little Pendulum Island is located to the north east of Wollaston Foreland, and to the south of Shannon Island. Together with Sabine Island (formerly Inner Pendulum Island) and an islet named Walrus Island ( da, Hvalros Ø) south of Sabine, it constitutes the Pendulum Islands. See also *List of islands of Greenland The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. Many of these islands have both a Kalaallisut language name and a European language name. Islands and archipelagoes * Aaluik * Aasiaat Archipelago * Achton Friis Islands * A ... References Uninhabited islands of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardencaple Fjord
Ardencaple Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. History Ardencaple Fjord was named by Douglas Clavering as "Ardencaple Inlet" in 1823, but the inner fjord would remain inaccessible for almost a century.''Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland'', Geological Survey of Denmark (GEUS) The Second German Polar Expedition under Carl Koldewey in 1869-70 visited the area but could not enter the fjord on account of deep snow. In April 1908 the Denmark expedition sent and exploration team to survey Ardencaple Fjord, which had not yet been mapped because previous expeditions were not able to go beyond its mouth. Geography This fjord is located between Queen Margrethe II Land and C.H. Ostenfeld Land, west of Shannon Island. It divides in two fjord branches in its inner part, Bredefjord and Smallefjord. It runs roughly from northeast to west for about 50 km. Its mouth is in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grandjean Fjord
Grandjean Fjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History This fjord was mapped in 1932 during the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland led by Lauge Koch. In August of the same year it was surveyed by Gunnar Seidenfaden. Koch named it after Commander Emil Valdemar Asger Grandjean (1889–1948), then chief of the Royal Danish Navy Air Service Geography Grandjean Fjord opens to the east, between Cape Negri to the south and Cape Buch to the north. Its mouth is located in the northwestern area of Hochstetter Bay, by the northern entrance of Fligely Fjord, northwest of Kuhn Island and south of the mouth area of Ardencaple Fjord. Ulla Island rises in the middle of mouth area of the fjord, about from the entrance. The fjord is about wide at the mouth and stretches to the southwest for about , curving northwestwards and narrowing to about in its inner half where the Heinkel Glacier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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