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List Of Islands Of The Greenland By Area
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This is a list of Greenlandic islands by area. It includes all islands in Greenland greater than , sorted in descending order by area. List of islands Islands and greater Islands between than and Islands less than See also *List of islands by area *List of islands of Greenland *Lists of islands Area 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 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait, and a small island off the coast may be called a holm. Sedimentary islands in the Ganges delta are called chars. A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands, such as the Philippines, is referred to as an archipelago. There are two main types of islands in the sea: continental and oceanic. There are also artificial islands, which are man-made. Etymology The word ''island'' derives from Middle English ''iland'', from Old English ''igland'' (from ''ig'' or ''ieg'', similarly meaning 'island' when used independently, and -land carrying its contemporary meaning; cf. Dutch ''eiland'' ("island"), German ''Eiland'' ("small island")). However, the spelling of the word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Store Koldewey
Store Koldewey, meaning 'Big Koldewey', is the largest of the Koldewey Islands in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. History The island was visited by the Second German North Polar Expedition 1869–70, led by Carl Koldewey and referred to as ''Grosse Koldewey Insel'' in the astronomy section of the expedition report, but this may not have been intended as a formal name. The present island was shown on Koldewey's maps as three islands. However, the 1906–08 Danmark Expedition showed them to be connected and called the island Store Koldewey. Lille Koldewey is a smaller island to the northeast of its northern end. Geography Store Koldewey is the largest of the ''Koldewey Islands''. It is a long and narrow island separating the Dove Bay Dove Bay ( da, Dove Bugt) is a bay in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park area. Etymology Dove bay is said to have been the legendary ''Breidifjòrdr'' of the Saga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindhard Island
Lindhard Island ( da, Lindhard Ø) is an uninhabited island of NE Greenland. Geography The island lies at the western edge of Dove Bay, east of the Bredebrae, the broad glacier producing masses of large icebergs, at the head of Borg Fjord to the north of the island. The Bredebrae is formed by the confluence of two large glaciers east of Queen Louise Land, the Storstrommen flowing from the north and the L. Bistrup Brae from the south. The island has an area of 263.3 km ² and a shoreline of 115.5 kilometres. Lindhard Island was visited and explored on March 26, 1913, by the 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land and Across the North Greenland Ice Sheet led by J.P. Koch. The narrow Kavaler Fjord in the northern part of the island almost divides Lindhard Island in two. Kavaler Fjord was discovered and named by J.P. Koch's 1912–13 Danish Expedition. Kavaler Fjord was named after the most stubborn of the expedition's horses, Kavaler, on their visit to the island o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ÃŽle-de-France (Greenland)
Île-de-France is an uninhabited island of the Greenland Sea, Greenland. The island has an area of 246.1 km ² and a shoreline of 71.9 kilometres. It lies off the southern part of Jokel Bay and southeast of the Danske Islands. Skaer Fjord is located southwest of Île-de-France's southern end. It is a broad fjord or bay with several arms extending westwards from it. History This island was named in 1905 by the Duke of Orléans during his Duke of Orléans Arctic Expedition when he explored parts of the northeastern coast of Greenland on ship Belgica.''Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland'', Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland 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 Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qeqertaq Island
Qeqertarsuaq, also known as Qeqertaq meaning just "Island", is an island in Avannaata municipality, near Upernavik, in northwestern Greenland. It is located in the Upernavik Archipelago in the Melville Bay of the Baffin Bay. Geography Qeqertaq is the second largest island in the Upernavik Archipelago, after Nutaarmiut. The only settlement is Upernavik Kujalleq (Søndre Upernavik) near ''Qugdlungut'', its southern cape. The island is located towards the southern end of the archipelago, separated from the mainland shore by a narrow sound and has an area of 250.03 km2. 'Qeqertarsuaq' (meaning "Large Island") is the name of several islands in Greenland. The island near Upernavik should not be confused with the much larger Qeqertarsuaq island, better known as Disko Island, or the smaller Qeqertarsuaq (Herbert Island) island near Qaanaaq (Thule). 'Qeqertaq' is also the name of another island near Upernavik (Danish: Skalø) and of a settlement in Qasigiannguit. See also *List of i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiatak
Kiatak or Northumberland Island ( da, Northumberland Ø), also known as ''Kujata'', is an island off the coast of northern Greenland. Geography This relatively large island is part of a small group formed by Kiatak, Herbert Island and Hakluyt Island. The latter is the smallest of the group and lies off Kiatak's western shore. The islands lie off the Inglefield Fjord, between the Murchison Sound to the north and the Hvalsund to the south. Important Bird Area The island has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding population of some 2.5 million pairs of little auks, as well as other seabird species. History The island was inhabited at the time of Robert Peary's Greenland expeditions in 1886 and 1891–1897.Robert Peary, ''Northward over the great ice'', p. 103 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 lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egger Island
Egger Island ( da, Eggers Ø; kl, Itilleq, old spelling: ''Itivdleq'') is Greenland's southernmost island. It is located in the Kujalleq municipality and is uninhabited. Geography Egger Island is an important landmark for a small islet off Cape Farewell, its southern headland, is the southernmost point of Greenland. It is part of the Cape Farewell Archipelago (Nunap Isua). The island has a deeply indented coastline and is separated from the neighbouring islands of the archipelago by narrow sounds. Qunnerit lies to the west, Sammisoq to the north and the smaller Avatdlerssuaq and Saningassoq to the east. Egger Island has an area of 308.8 km2 and a shoreline of 150.2 kilometres. Cape Farewell lies at the island's southernmost tip, with a height of over 2000 feet; it is noted for bad weather. See also *List of islands of Greenland *List of countries by southernmost point This is a list of countries by southernmost point on land. Where borders are contested, the southern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Thyra Island
Princess Thyra Island ( da, Prinsesse Thyra Ø) is an uninhabited island of the Wandel Sea, Greenland. The island is within King Frederick VIII Land in the Northeast Greenland National Park. The island was named after Princess Thyra of Denmark. Geography This island is located east of Princess Margaret Island, to the northwest of Princess Dagmar Island close to the coast of far northeastern Greenland, in a bay of the Wandel Sea at the confluence of Denmark Sound and Independence Sound. The island has an area of 294.8 km ² and a shoreline of 85.7 kilometres. It was formerly part of Avannaa, originally ''Nordgrønland'' ("North Greenland"), one of the counties of Greenland until 31 December 2008. 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 Isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nutaarmiut Island
Nutaarmiut Island (old spelling: ''Nutârmiut'') is an uninhabitedNorwegian University of Science and Technology island in municipality in northwestern , with an area of . Geography The island is located in the southern part of , on the coast of |
Illorsuit Island
Illorsuit Island ( kl, Illorsuip qeqertaat, da, Ubekendt Ejland) is an island in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography The island is pear-shaped, and at ,Norwegian University of Science and Technology it is the second-largest island in the system, located to the east of its mouth, between Sigguup Nunaa peninsula in the north and in the south.''Nuussuaq'', Sag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sverdrup Island (Greenland)
Sverdrup Island ( da, Sverdrup Ø) is an uninhabited island in the far north of Greenland, in the Northeast Greenland National Park area. It is named after Otto Sverdrup. Geography Sverdrup Island is located west of Nansen Land, to the north of Freuchen Land off the mouth of J.P. Koch Fjord in the Lincoln Sea, and to the east of Elison Island and John Murray Island. The island has an area of 436 km ² and a shoreline of 130 kilometres. Chipp Sound in the west separates Sverdrup Island from smaller Elison Island and Mascart Sound in the east separates it from Nansen Land. Lemming Fjord has its mouth in the NW side of the island and extends deeply southwards, almost cutting Sverdrup Island in two. The island is mountainous, with the highest summit rising to a height of 1,317 m.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 95 See also *List of islands of Greenland *Peary Land References Islands of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
