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Hazenland
Hazenland or ''Hazen Land'' is an uninhabited island of the Lincoln Sea in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. The island was named in May 1882 by James Booth Lockwood of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition after General William Babcock Hazen, who had organized the venture. Lockwood reached his farthest north (83° 24′N) on neighboring Lockwood Island. Geography Hazenland is located off the eastern side of East Jensen Island in the De Long Fjord zone. The island has an area of and a shoreline of . Its eastern shore forms the western side of Weyprecht Fjord, beyond which lies Lockwood Island. Small and narrow Inge Island, located at the mouth of De Long Fjord lies off the western side of Hazenland Island. Wild Sound extends off the southwestern shore and MacMillan Island rises beyond it. Moa Island Moa Island, also called Banks Island, is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago that is located north of Thursday Island, Queensland, Thursday Island in the Banks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazen Land
Hazenland or ''Hazen Land'' is an uninhabited island of the Lincoln Sea in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. The island was named in May 1882 by James Booth Lockwood of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition after General William Babcock Hazen, who had organized the venture. Lockwood reached his farthest north (83° 24′N) on neighboring Lockwood Island. Geography Hazenland is located off the eastern side of East Jensen Island in the De Long Fjord zone. The island has an area of and a shoreline of . Its eastern shore forms the western side of Weyprecht Fjord, beyond which lies Lockwood Island. Small and narrow Inge Island, located at the mouth of De Long Fjord lies off the western side of Hazenland Island. Wild Sound extends off the southwestern shore and MacMillan Island rises beyond it. Moa Island (Greenland), Moa Island lies to the southeast at the mouth of Harder Fjord, separated from Hazenland's shore by a narrow sound. See also *List of islands of Greenland References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Jensen Island
MacMillan Island ( da, MacMillan Ø), also known as East Jensen Island, is an uninhabited island of the Lincoln Sea in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. The island was formerly named after Danish zoologist Adolf Severin Jensen (1866 - 1953), professor at the University of Copenhagen, who had carried out extensive research on the fisheries of West Greenland, and who was a member of the committee of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition ''(Treårsekspeditionen)''. Geography East Jensen Island is located off the western side of Hazenland in the De Long Fjord. The island has an area of and a shoreline of . Its western shore forms the eastern side of Adolf Jensen Fjord (Qajuutaq), beyond which lies Borup Island (West Jensen Island). Small and narrow Inge Island, located at the mouth of De Long Fjord lies 3 km to the north off the northern end of East Jensen Island. See also *List of islands of Greenland The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. Many o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 * Aggas *Akilia *Alluttoq Island *Aluk Island * Ammassalik Island * Anoraliuirsoq *Appat Island *Apusiaajik Island *ATOW1996 *Beaumont Island (Greenland) * Bjorne Island *Bjorne Islands * Bjornesk Island * Bonsall Islands *Bontekoe Island *Borup Island * Brainard Island * Bushnan Island *Cape Farewell Archipelago ** Annikitsoq ** Avallersuaq **Egger Island ** Ikeq Island ** Nunarsuaq (Nunarssuak) ** Pamialluk ** Qernertoq **Qunnerit **Sammisoq ** Saningassoq **Walkendorff Island *Carey Islands * Castle Island, Greenland *Clavering Island * Crown Prince Islands *Crozier Island *Danmark Island *Danske Islands * Deception Island (Greenland) * Diego's Island * Djævleøen * Dog's Island * Edward Island * Elison Island *Ella Island * Ensomheden *Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harder Fjord
Harder Fjord ( da, Harders Fjord) is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.Google Maps The Harder Ford Fault Zone (HFFZ) is a geological structural feature in North Greenland named after the fjord. Geography Harder Fjord is the innermost branch of the Weyprecht Fjord system. Its southern shore forms the northern limit of Amundsen Land. To the north lies the southern end of Hazenland, Moa Island and Roosevelt Land. The fjord is roughly oriented in an east / west direction and is over in length. Cape Holger Danske is the headland to the south of the mouth of the fjord, in the inner Wild Sound area.''Sailing Directions for the East Coast of Greenland''. United States Hydrographic Office, p. 267 The Dreng Glacier ''(Dreng Brae)'' has its terminus at the head of the fjord, deep inside the mainland of the Peary Land peninsula. See also *List of fjords of Greenland This is a list of the most important fjords of Greenland:In Northern Greenland, a large area made up e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacMillan Island
MacMillan Island ( da, MacMillan Ø), also known as East Jensen Island, is an uninhabited island of the Lincoln Sea in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. The island was formerly named after Danish zoologist Adolf Severin Jensen (1866 - 1953), professor at the University of Copenhagen, who had carried out extensive research on the fisheries of West Greenland, and who was a member of the committee of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition ''(Treårsekspeditionen)''. Geography East Jensen Island is located off the western side of Hazenland in the De Long Fjord. The island has an area of and a shoreline of . Its western shore forms the eastern side of Adolf Jensen Fjord (Qajuutaq), beyond which lies Borup Island (West Jensen Island). Small and narrow Inge Island, located at the mouth of De Long Fjord lies 3 km to the north off the northern end of East Jensen Island. See also *List of islands of Greenland The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. Many o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Long Fjord
De Long Fjord is a fjord system in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the northwest, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. The fjord is named after arctic explorer George W. De Long. Geography De Long Fjord opens to the northwest east of Nansen Land and to the west of Weyprecht Fjord, separated from it by the island of Hazenland. Its mouth is located to the south of the Wild Sound and southeast of Luigi Amadeo Island and Cape Mohn, and south of Hanne Island.GoogleEarth The Tjalfe Glacier discharges ice from the Hans Tausen Ice Cap at its head. Although the islands in the fjord, as well as the peninsula flanking it, are unglaciated, the sea in the area is permanently covered by ice. The De Long Fjord is a fjord system with three branches separated by islands in its outer section: * Brainard Sound in the west, between Nansen Land and Borup Island (Borup Island). * Thomas Thomsen Fjord (Qajuuttaq), betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weyprecht Fjord
Weyprecht Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland. To the northwest, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. The fjord is named after Austro-Hungarian Arctic explorer Karl Weyprecht. Geography Weyprecht Fjord is located east of the De Long Fjord. It opens to the northwest east of Hazenland and to the west of Lockwood Island with the Conger Sound branching east of the island separating it from Roosevelt Land. Its mouth is located between Cape Hommock and Cape Christiansen.GoogleEarth In its inner part, by Moa Island, Harder Fjord opens into Weyprecht Fjord, extending eastwards. It forms the northern limit of Amundsen Land to the southeast and at its head is a valley running eastwards north of which rises the Roosevelt Range. The sea in the area is almost permanently covered by ice.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 95 See also *List of fjords of Greenland *Peary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lockwood Island
Lockwood Island ( da, Lockwood Ø) is an island of the Lincoln Sea, Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Lockwood Island is the northernmost sizeable coastal island of Greenland. The waters around the island are frozen the year round. History This island was named after U.S. Arctic explorer James Booth Lockwood (1852-1884). Lockwood and Sgt. David Legge Brainard achieved a new "farthest north" record of 83°23'8" on the island at the time of Greely's Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. Geography Lockwood Island is located at the mouth of Weyprecht Fjord, its western shore forming the eastern side of the area at the entrance of the fjord. On the eastern shore of the island broad Conger Sound separates it from Cape Kane in Roosevelt Land in the mainland whose northernmost point is Cape Washington to the east beyond Hunt Fjord. The island rises to a height of at Mount Schley. Cape Christiansen is the headland at the northern end and small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Babcock Hazen
William Babcock Hazen (September 27, 1830 – January 16, 1887) was a career United States Army officer who served in the Indian Wars, as a Union general in the American Civil War, and as Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army. His most famous service was defending "Hell's Half Acre" at the Battle of Stones River in 1862, and seizing Fort McAllister, Georgia, in December 1864, which allowed William Sherman to capture Savannah at the end of his March to the Sea. Early life and military career Hazen was born in West Hartford, Vermont, but moved to Ohio at the age of three. He spent his boyhood in the town of Hiram and formed a close personal friendship with future President James A. Garfield. He graduated from the United States Military Academy, in 1855, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 4th U.S. Infantry. Before the Civil War, he served primarily in the Pacific Northwest and Texas, where he was wounded severely on November 3, 1859, during a fight with the Comanch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Franklin Bay Expedition
* The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881–1884 to Lady Franklin Bay on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic was led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely, and was promoted by the United States Army Signal Corps. Its purpose was to establish a meteorological-observation station as part of the First International Polar Year, and to collect astronomical and magnetic data. During the expedition, two members of the crew reached a new Farthest North record, but of the original twenty-five men, only seven survived to return. The expedition was under the auspices of the Signal Corps at a time when the Corps' Chief Disbursements officer, Henry W. Howgate, was arrested for embezzlement. However, that did not deter the planning and execution of the voyage. Expedition First year, 1881 The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition was led by Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely of the Fifth United States Cavalry, with astronomer Edward Israel and photographer George W. Rice among the crew of twenty-one ... [...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] |
Inge Island
Inge is a given name in various Germanic language-speaking cultures. In Swedish and Norwegian, it is mostly used as a masculine, but less often also as a feminine name, sometimes as a short form of Ingeborg, while in Danish, Estonian, Frisian, German and Dutch it is exclusively feminine. The feminine name has the variant ''Inga''. The name is in origin a hypocorism of names beginning in the element ''Ing-'' (such as Ingar, Inger, Ingrid, Ingeborg, Ingram, Ingvild, Ingunn etc.). These Germanic names made reference to either the god Ing or to the tribe of the Ingvaeones (who were presumably in turn named for the god). Inge is also encountered as a surname in the English-speaking world; the surname is usually pronounced in England to rhyme with "ring"; alternatively (especially in the United States) some families pronounce it to rhyme with "hinge." People called Inge Masculine given name Scandinavian royalty *Inge the Elder (died c. 1110) *Inge the Younger, king of Sweden c. 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
